Firehead-millipede | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
Class: | Diplopoda |
Order: | Spirostreptida |
Family: | Spirostreptidae |
Genus: | Spirostreptus |
Species: | S. servatius
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Binomial name | |
Spirostreptus servatius Attems, 1914
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Spirostreptus servatius, the firehead-millipede, is a millipede of the family Spirostreptidae. The species was first described by Carl Attems in his 1914 Afrikanische Spirostreptiden: nebst Ueberblick über die Spirostreptiden orbis terrarum Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914).[1] It was first found in Bibundi, Cameroon. It is distributed over west and central Africa.