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GIANT AFRICAN
MILLIPEDE
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Close Relatives
The close relatives of the Giant African
Millipede are the Centipedes (Chilopoda),
the Pill Millipede, and the Rusty
Millipede.
Work cited
Cri te ria fo r re s e a r c h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede
The classification is Kingdom: also emit poisonous liquids through
Animalia, Phylum: Arthropoda, their pores. Their reproductions is http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/
Subphylum: Myriapoda, Class: sexual. The male directly deposits entornlogy/factsheets/milliped.html
Diplopoda, Order: Julida, Family: sperm into the reproduction organs of
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/
Spirostreptidae, Genus: the female. The Giant African Casefile/relatives/millipedes/
Archispirostreptus, Species: A. gigas Millipede had to relocate because of millipede.htm
their being too many in one spot and
Some distinguishing characteristics of
they infest houses. http://www.eduwebs.org/bugs/
phyla, class, etc. are the phyla Millipede.htm
Arthropoda means they all have The origin of the Giant African
jointed appendages and no backbone. Millipede is Africa. The daily routine http://animals.jrank.org/pages/2550/
The class Diplopoda means that or niche of the millipede is to stay out Millipedes-Diplopoda-BEHAVIOR-
animals have segments with 2 pair of of life and burrow into the earth. The REPRODUCTION.html
legs fused together. Their habitat is in effects the Giant African Millipede has http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/
soil, marine ecosystems. under rotting on other species is they can kill littler ANR-1075/
logs, leaf debris, and caves. species than itself by secreting liquids.
http://www.wvu.edu/~extwn/infores/
Some adaptations are they coil tight in The laws controlling spread of exotic pubs/pest/hpm9003.pdf
a circle to protect themselves using or invasive species are the IPM (the
their exoskeleton from predators. They most effective), chemicals, & exclusion.