Tuoba littoralis ( Takakuwa, 1934e )

Jonishi, Taro & Nakano, Takafumi, 2022, Correct Authorships, Synonymies, and Remarks on the Type Series of Fourteen Names of Centipedes Introduced by Yoshioki Takakuwa in 1934 and Mecistocephalus takakuwai (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha and Scolopendromorpha), Species Diversity 27 (1), pp. 71-81 : 75

Tuoba littoralis ( Takakuwa, 1934e)

[Japanese name: Iso-shimajimukade]

Nesogeophilus littoralis Takakuwa, 1934e: 387–388 , figs 9, 10 (available name).

Nesogeophilus littoralis Takakuwa, 1934f: 402–403 , figs 6–8 (invalidly described as new).

Nesogeophilus littoralis (without attribution): Takakuwa 1940a: 109–110, figs 116, 117; Shinohara 1961: 76, 79, 80, pl. 8, fig. 7; Shinohara et al. 2015: 895, 907, fig. 3 (895).

Type series. Takakuwa (1934e) did not designate the types, although Takakuwa (1934e, f) imply that the original material included at least one male and one female. Takashima (1955) stated that 20 syntypes existed, but nonetheless no such specimens were found in the Miyosi Collection, and therefore, they may have been lost.

Type locality. Manazuru Town , Kanagawa Prefecture, Honshu, Japan .

Japanese name. The name“Iso-shimajimukade” was introduced by Takakuwa (1934e).

Remarks. The entry for this species in ChiloBase 2.0 (Bonato et al. 2016j) cites both Takakuwa (1934e) and Takakuwa (1934f) as the original publications for this species, but the authorship of littoralis is attributed to Takakuwa (1934f). This should be corrected to Takakuwa (1934e) in accordance with the actual precedence of the two works.