Pill millipedes are any members of two living (and one extinct) orders of millipedes, often grouped together into a single superorder, Oniscomorpha. The...
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fused together. Most millipedes have very elongated cylindrical or flattened bodies with more than 20 segments, while pill millipedes are shorter and can...
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Armadillidiidae (redirect from Pill bug)
similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs or roly polies. Other...
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Woodlouse (section Pillbugs and pill millipedes)
shrimp, or crawfish. Pill bugs (woodlice of the family Armadillidiidae and Armadillidae) can be confused with pill millipedes of the order Glomerida...
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Zoosphaerium neptunus (redirect from Giant emerald pill millipede)
Zoosphaerium neptunus, also known as the giant emerald pill millipede, is a species of millipede within the family Arthrosphaeridae. Its size is an example...
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Sphaerotheriida (redirect from Giant pill-millipede)
Sphaerotheriida is an order of millipedes in the infraclass Pentazonia, sometimes known as giant pill millipedes. They inhabit Southern Africa, Madagascar...
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Glomeris marginata (category Millipedes of Europe)
Glomeris marginata is a common European species of pill millipede. It is a short millipede, rounded in cross-section, which is capable of rolling itself...
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Glomeris annulata (redirect from Orange banded pill millipede)
Glomeris annulata, also known as the orange banded pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede within the genus Glomeris and family Glomeridae. The...
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genus Chryseobacterium which has been isolated from the faeces of the pill millipede Arthrosphaera magna in India. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de "Straininfo of Chryseobacterium...
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Glomeris sublimbata (redirect from Marbled pill millipede)
Glomeris sublimbata, also known as the marbled pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede belonging to the genus Glomeris and the family Glomeridae...
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Zoosphaerium album (redirect from Giant opal pill millipede)
Zoosphaerium album, also known as the giant opal pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede within the family Arthrosphaeridae and order Sphaerotheriida...
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crustacean of the family Armadillidiidae, also known as a pill bug A pill millipede (unrelated to the pill bug) Syzygium alliiligneum, a plant from Queensland...
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Trachysphaera lobata (redirect from Sand pill millipede)
pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede within the genus Trachysphaera and family Glomeridae. Trachysphaera lobata is a small pill millipede species...
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Glomeris oblongoguttata (redirect from Painted lady pill millipede)
Glomeris oblongoguttata, also known as the painted lady pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede belonging to the genus Glomeris and the family Glomeridae...
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Procyliosoma tuberculatum (redirect from New Zealand pill millipede)
Procyliosoma tuberculatum is a giant pill millipede of the family Procyliosomatidae, endemic to New Zealand. Two subspecies are recognised – P. t. tuberculatum...
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Glomeris balcanica (redirect from Balkan pill millipede)
Glomeris balcanica, also known as the Balkan pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede within the family Glomeridae and order Glomerida. Glomeris...
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Glomerida (category Millipede orders)
order of pill-millipedes found primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. Also known as northern pill millipedes, they superficially resemble pill-bugs or woodlice...
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Polydesmida (redirect from Flat-backed millipede)
desmos "bond") is the largest order of millipedes, with more than 5,000 species, including all the millipedes reported to produce hydrogen cyanide (HCN)...
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Earthworms may volvate during periods of extreme heat or drought. Among pill millipedes, volvation is both a protection against external threats and against...
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Glomeris hexasticha (redirect from Eastern six-striped pill millipede)
six-striped pill millipede or the diagonal-striped pill millipede, is a species of pill millipede within the family Glomeridae and order Glomerida. The pill millipede...
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(2014). "Cytological and karyological observations on two endemic giant pill-millipedes Arthrosphaera (Pocock 1895) (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida) of the Western...
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Arthrosphaera brandtii (category Millipedes of Asia)
Arthrosphaera brandtii, the Tanzanian pill bug millipede, is a species of pill millipede in the family Arthrosphaeridae. It is found in many African and...
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Gonopod (redirect from Gonopod (millipede))
Males of the subgroup Pentazonia (which includes the Oniscomorpha (pill millipedes) and Glomeridesmida) lack gonopods but possess enlarged appendages...
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appearance is thought to be an example of Batesian mimicry, mimicking the pill millipede Glomeris marginata which secretes noxious chemicals and is native to...
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also commonly known as pill woodlice, leg pebbles, pill bugs, roly-poly, or potato bugs, and are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata...
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Myriapoda (section Millipedes)
species known to have 1,000 or more legs, possessing 1,306 of them. Pill millipedes are much shorter, and are capable of rolling up into a ball, like pillbugs...
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Glomeris pustulata (category Millipedes of Europe)
Glomeris pustulata is a species of pill millipede belonging to the genus Glomeris and the family Glomeridae. Glomeris pustulata possesses a central European...
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Arthropleura (Greek for 'jointed ribs') is a genus of massive millipedes that lived in what is now North America and Europe around 345 to 290 million years...
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Glomeris primordialis (category Millipedes of Europe)
Glomeris primordialis, is a species of pill millipede within the genus Glomeris and family Glomeridae. The species is locally endemic to the Biellese Alps...
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Zoosphaerium darthvaderi (redirect from Darth Vader Giant Pill-Millipede)
darthvaderi, also known as the Darth Vader giant pill millipede, is a species of giant pill millipede endemic to the island state of Madagascar. It is...
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