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Procyliosoma tuberculatum

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The giant pill millipede is very active at night, and by day is found curled up under logs and rocks. Female millipedes can lay up to six eggs under logs and moist soil.
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has hard, shiny body plates that allow it roll into a circular shape protecting its head, legs and rear from predators.
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can grow up to 5 centimetres long and 2.5 centimetres wide. They eat decaying vegetation, and are found throughout the
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Index

Procyliosoma tuberculatum tuberculatum

Scientific classification
Animalia
Arthropoda
Myriapoda
Diplopoda
Sphaerotheriida
Procyliosomatidae
Procyliosoma
Binomial name
Silvestri
giant pill millipede
family
Procyliosomatidae
endemic
New Zealand
North Island
South Island
"Revision of the New Zealand pill millipedes (Oniscomorpha, Sphaerotheridae)"
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand
"New Zealand Ecology - Gigantism in Insects"


ISBN
0-477-02590-0
Taxon identifiers
Wikidata
Q7247563
Wikispecies

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