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  10. ›Leptodesmidea
  11. ›Platyrhacoidea
  12. ›Platyrhacidae
  13. ›Psammodesminae
  14. ›Psammodesmus
Moss Millipede
Plate 1 of 2. Shirley Daniella Martínez-Torres, Álvaro Eduardo Flórez Daza, Edgar Leonardo Linares-Casti (CC BY 4.0) · via Wikimedia

Moss Millipede

Psammodesmus bryophorus

The moss millipede (Psammodesmus bryophorus) is a keeled millipede of the family Platyrhacidae native to Colombia. It was described in 2011, and with several species of symbiotic moss found growing on its dorsal surface, it is the first millipede known with epizoic plants.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1286748.