Lukas VFN 🇪🇺New genus of 'alien-faced' multi-legged forest dwellers discovered
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-genus-alien-multi-legged-forest.html
The trachystreptoform #spirostreptids of the #Udzungwa Mountains, #Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae) https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2405
"#researchers have uncovered a new genus and 5 #NewSpecies of #millipedes in remote African #jungles—and say the many-legged creatures could hold important clues to whether woody #vines are choking or protecting the world's #forests."
New genus of 'alien-faced' multi-legged forest dwellers discovered
University of the Sunshine Coast researchers have uncovered a new genus and five new species of millipedes in remote African jungles—and say the many-legged creatures could hold important clues to whether woody vines are choking or protecting the world's forests.