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Babies of a Millepede ( गिंजाई : Ginjaaee )

Trigoniulus corallinus

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Field Notes

Description:

Millipedes are arthropods that have two pairs of legs per segment (except for the first segment behind the head which does not have any appendages at all, and the next few which only have one pair of legs). Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one.
The name "millipede" is a compound word formed from the Latin roots mille ("thousand") and pes ("foot"). Despite their name, millipedes do not have 1,000 legs, although the rare species Illacme plenipes has up to 750.[2] Common species have between 36 and 400 legs. The class contains around 10,000 species in 13 orders and 115 families. The giant African millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas), known as shongololos, is the largest species of millipede.

Habitat:

Behind my school, in a little part of forest, I found these early born little baby creatures in a rest position. School is GHSS, Charubeta, Khatima, Uttarakhand, India.

Notes:

Rainy season has been started in north of India.
After the summer vacation of one month, today I went to my working place, my school.
Behind my school, in a little part of forest, I found these early born little baby creatures in a rest position.
But as I took first snap, listening the sound of “click”, they started running together in a direction, climbing over one-another.
We call them “Ginjaaee” in Hindi.
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Editing info : First on 14 July 2011.

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Comments (14)

Good spotting~ They are important but look really horrible @@
I've seen them quite a lot of times at our home in Nagpur.
Yeah, it does look like millepede, a different breed though!
Your link is reflecting Millepede find in Maharashtra, so I get a new topic to study. I will try to find some informative.
Raavendra can you check exact specie in http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6873133
Today I found one more photograph related to this post. You can see to surf http://www.visualphotos.com/image/2x3818438/millipedes_when_alarmed_most_millipedes_coil_up_in
Oh...good to know you followed the organism to find reality. Raavendra thanks for sharing your experience.
Carolina and Ashish! Happy news. Today I got success to identify these little creatures. these are new born babies of a Millepede.
May be Earth worms..!!

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