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Illacme plenipes is a siphonorhinid millipede found in the central region of the U.S. state of California.It has up to 750 legs. One of three known species in the genus Illacme, it was first seen in 1926, but was not rediscovered until 2005, almost 80 years after its discovery, by Paul Marek, then a Ph.D. student at East Carolina University.
Video of a female I. socal millipede that was filmed in the laboratory, and within the soil from its microhabitat. Cedric Lee, who first discovered I. socal and Paul Marek, diplopodologist and expert on siphonorhinid millipedes, discuss its discovery and taxonomic species description on the New Species Podcast.
Narceus americanus is a large millipede of eastern North America. Common names include American giant millipede, [1] worm millipede, and iron worm. [2] It inhabits the eastern seaboard of North America west to Georgetown, Texas, north of the Ottine wetlands. [3] It has a nearly cylindrical gray body, reaching a length of 4 inches (100 mm). [4]
Illacme is a genus of millipedes in the family Siphonorhinidae. It includes three species. It includes three species. Illacme plenipes was first described in 1928 from San Benito County , California, and rediscovered in 2005.
Flat millipede found in the Mount Cameroon Forest. Millipedes appear in folklore and traditional medicine around the world. Some cultures associate millipede activity with coming rains. [97] In Zambia, smashed millipede pulp is used to treat wounds, and the Bafia people of Cameroon use millipede juice to treat earache. [97]
The Dragon Ball orange bullet millipede, Hyleoglomeris dracosphaera, was described as a new species along with five others in a new study published April 26 in the journal Contributions to Zoology.
Neocambrisoma raveni is a species of millipede in the family Metopidiotrichidae. [1] These millipedes are found in New South Wales in Australia. [2] Like other species in this family, N. raveni features 32 segments (counting the collum as the first segment and the telson as the last) in adults of both sexes, rather than the 30 segments usually observed in adults in the order Chordeumatida.
In the video, Wolf explains that these rattlesnakes were probably attracted to the area under the house because it had a lot of rocks. Making their den there, they started having babies, and the ...