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Dragon Millipedes
Desmoxytes
Desmoxytes, whose species are commonly known as the dragon millipedes, is a genus of millipede of the family Paradoxosomatidae found in southeast Asia. The genus was described by Ralph Vary Chamberlin in 1923 and reviewed by Sergei Golovatch and Henrik Enghoff in 1994. At least twenty-nine species are known from southeastern China to Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. One species, D. planata, has also been observed in Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, Seychelles, Java, Great Coco Island,...
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Desmoxytes planata
speciesDesmoxytes planata
Shocking Pink Millipede
speciesDesmoxytes purpurosea
Desmoxytes cervina
speciesDesmoxytes cervina
Desmoxytes delfae
speciesDesmoxytes delfae
Desmoxytes pinnasquali
speciesDesmoxytes pinnasquali
Desmoxytes takensis
speciesDesmoxytes takensis
Desmoxytes octoconigera
speciesDesmoxytes octoconigera
Desmoxytes golovatchi
speciesDesmoxytes golovatchi
Desmoxytes terae
speciesDesmoxytes terae
Desmoxytes aurata
speciesDesmoxytes aurata
Desmoxytes corythosaurus
speciesDesmoxytes corythosaurus
Desmoxytes flabella
speciesDesmoxytes flabella
Desmoxytes des
speciesDesmoxytes des
Desmoxytes rubra
speciesDesmoxytes rubra
Desmoxytes breviverpa
speciesDesmoxytes breviverpa
Desmoxytes euros
speciesDesmoxytes euros
Desmoxytes perakensis
speciesDesmoxytes perakensis
Desmoxytes pterygota
speciesDesmoxytes pterygota
Desmoxytes taurina
speciesDesmoxytes taurina
Desmoxytes waepyanensis
speciesDesmoxytes waepyanensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Desmoxytes in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 366883.