Millipede - Wikipedia Millipedes can be distinguished from the somewhat similar but only distantly related centipedes (class Chilopoda), which move rapidly, are venomous, carnivorous, and have only a single pair of legs on each body segment The scientific study of millipedes is known as diplopodology, and a scientist who studies them is called a diplopodologist
Millipede | Invertebrate, Diplopoda, Exoskeleton | Britannica Millipede, (class Diplopoda), any member of the arthropod class Diplopoda, distributed worldwide and commonly grouped with several other classes as myriapods The approximately 10,000 species live in and eat decaying plant matter; some injure living plants, and a few are predators and scavengers
Millipedes of California - iNaturalist Rowland M Shelley's Annotated Checklist of the Millipeds of California 'ABSTRACT —The milliped fauna of California consists of 11 orders, 24 families, 83 genera, and 226 species and subspecies A complete listing of these taxa and intergrades is provided, with published and new records from the state and type localities Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus (Wood), C truncorum (Silvestri