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Millipedes in the order Siphonophorida are long and worm-like, reaching up to 36 millimetres (1.4 in) in length and up to 190 body segments. Eyes are absent, and in many species the head is elongated into a long beak, with mandibles highly reduced. The beak may serve in a suctorial function. The body has a dense covering of fine setae.
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.
The generic name Eumillipes means "true millipede" (or "true thousand feet"). As the first millipede discovered with more than 1,000 legs, this millipede lives up to its name. The specific name persephone is a reference to the Greek goddess of the same name, who was the queen of the underworld, alluding to the subterranean lifestyle of this ...
Analocostreptus gregorius, previously called Spirostreptus gregorius and sometimes called African olive millipede is a millipede of the family Spirostreptidae. The species was first described by Carl Attems in his 1914 Afrikanische Spirostreptiden: nebst Ueberblick über die Spirostreptiden orbis terrarum Attems, C. M. T. Graf von.
It joins other millipedes found in the state, including one that until recently held the crown for the most legs of any creature ever recorded — a whopping 750 limbs.
Siphonotidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyzoniida. [1] [2] [3] This family includes more than 70 species distributed among 13 genera. [4] These millipedes are found in South America, South Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, and New Zealand. [5] Millipedes in this family have a narrow telson and are quick and active. [5]
Arthropleura's antennae are millipede-like, with seven segments. The shape of its feeding appendages and position of the jaws are centipede-like, though the shape of the jaws are millipede-like.
Nannaria swiftae, also known as the Swift twisted-claw millipede [1] or Taylor Swift's millipede, [2] is a species of millipede in the family Xystodesmidae. It is found only in the Appalachian mountains of the U.S. state of Tennessee .