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The term "millipede" is widespread in popular and scientific literature, but among North American scientists, the term "milliped" (without the terminal e) is also used. [4] Other vernacular names include "thousand-legger" or simply "diplopod". [5] The science of millipede biology and taxonomy is called diplopodology: the study of diplopods. [6]
Millipedes, myriapods of the class Diplopoda, contain approximately 12,000 described species organized into 16 extant orders and approximately 140 families.This list is based on Shear, 2011, [1] sorted alphabetically by order and taxonomically within order.
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Eumillipes is a genus of millipede in the family Siphonotidae. This genus contains a single species, Eumillipes persephone, known from the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. This millipede can have as many as 1,306 legs, which makes this species the animal with the most legs on Earth and the first millipede discovered to have 1,000 legs ...
Trigoniulus corallinus, sometimes called the rusty millipede or common Asian millipede, is a species of millipede widely distributed in the Indo-Malayan region including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, and much of Indonesia.
Flat-backed Millipede (Polydesmida) A few species deviate by having more than the usual number of segments, including those in the cave-dwelling genus Devillea . [ 11 ] [ 10 ] For example, in the species D. tuberculata , adult females have 22 segments and adult males have 21 (including the telson), with a corresponding increase in the number of ...
The greenhouse millipede (Oxidus gracilis), also known as the hothouse millipede, short-flange millipede, or garden millipede, is a species of millipede in the family Paradoxosomatidae that has been widely introduced around the world, and is sometimes a pest in greenhouses.
Callipodida are long and narrow millipedes, up to 100 millimetres (3.9 in) in length with 40-60 body segments. A dorsal groove is present running down the mid-line of the body, and many species are ornamented with longitudinal crests or ridges.