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Figures 12-17 Australoschendyla albanyensis sp. nov., <$ WAM 92/1623: 12, first and second maxilla, from below; 13, 
apical claw of sixth left leg; 14, forcipules, from below; 15, clypeus; 16, labrum; 17, head and antenna, 
from above. Scale lines equal 0.1 mm except for Figures 13 and 16 where they equal 0.05 mm. 
DISCUSSION 
Schendylids do not appear to be species diverse 
in the southwest Pacific area. A Mesoschendyla is 
known from Java (Attems 1914), an Adenoschendyla 
from Fiji (Chamberlin 1920), a Plesioschendyla from 
New Caledonia (Ribaut 1923) and a Eucralonyx 
species from the Bismark Archipelago in New 
Guinea (Pocock 1898). These genera appear 
sufficiently distinct from each other and from 
Australoschendyla to justify their continuation as 
genera for the time being, but a revision of the 
Schendylidae and related families is much needed. 
Both A. capensis and A. albanyensis are so far only 
known from their respective type localities. The 
two species can be distinguished by the length of 
the forcipules relative to the head capsule, by the 
number of coxal pores and the number of leg-pairs. 
These characters should be used with caution as 
there are likely to be more native schendylids 
found in Australia. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
I wish to thank Mark Harvey of the Western 
Australian Museum who arranged for the loan of 
the specimens and the Norfolk Museum Service 
for providing research facilities. I would also like 
to thank Dr A.G. Irwin (Castle Museum, Norwich) 
for much help and discussion on taxonomic 
matters. Bob Mesibov gave helpful advice on an 
earlier draft of this paper. 
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Attems, C. (1929). Myriopoda 1. Geophilomorpha. Das 
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