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    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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    the chemicals in urine. Pill bugs (woodlice of the family Armadillidiidae and Armadillidae) can be confused with pill millipedes of the order Glomerida...
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    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    general appearance, gives it the name pill-bug and also creates the potential for confusion with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata. It can be...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    (2014). "Cytological and karyological observations on two endemic giant pill-millipedes Arthrosphaera (Pocock 1895) (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida) of the Western...
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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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  • 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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