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Flat millipede

Polydesmida

Photo by The MnMs
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Polydesmida

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injica
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Comments (4)
The MnMs
Thanks for narrowing down the ID, injica :-)
injica
maybe this will help you: http://atshq.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=14136
The MnMs
Thanks, i will correct it. No, the last is another separate spotting. It looked like thesame type of animal, though.
Latimeria
This is a millipede, not a centipede: it has two legs per segment and is in the class Diplopoda. Also, is your last picture of the same individual?

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Mexico Horn of Plenty
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Yucatan Peninsula Biodiversity
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 25, 2011

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