Global InformationPlutonium zwierleini information
| Plutonium zwierleini | |
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| P. zwierleini, from Montoro Superiore, Campania. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Scolopendromorpha |
| Family: | Plutoniumidae |
| Genus: | Plutonium Cavanna, 1881 |
| Species: | P. zwierleini
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| Binomial name | |
| Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, 1881
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Plutonium zwierleini, in the monotypic genus Plutonium, is one of the largest scolopendromorph centipedes in Europe, and one of the few potentially harmful to humans. Nevertheless, it has been rarely reported, only from the southern part of the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sardinia and Sicily.