Wandering leg sausage
The Wandering Leg Sausage also known as Crurifarcimen vagans is the third newly discovered species of 2013.
Characteristics
Although this millipede is no match in length for the giant African millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas at 38 cm/ 15 inches), new species Crurifarcimen
vagans holds a new record as the largest millipede (16 cm) in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains. The new genus name seems apt given the fat, sausage-like shape of the millipede’s body which is about 1.5 cm in diameter with 56 more or less podous rings (body segments bearing ambulatory limbs) – each with two pairs of legs. C.
vagans is found in eastern and western Usambara Mountain forests at elevations of 940 to 1800 meters in decaying wood.
The Classification Key
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthopoda
Subphlum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Spirobolida
Family: Pachybolidae
Genus: Crurifarcimen
Species: C. vagans
Characteristics
Although this millipede is no match in length for the giant African millipede (Archispirostreptus gigas at 38 cm/ 15 inches), new species Crurifarcimen
vagans holds a new record as the largest millipede (16 cm) in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains. The new genus name seems apt given the fat, sausage-like shape of the millipede’s body which is about 1.5 cm in diameter with 56 more or less podous rings (body segments bearing ambulatory limbs) – each with two pairs of legs. C.
vagans is found in eastern and western Usambara Mountain forests at elevations of 940 to 1800 meters in decaying wood.
The Classification Key
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthopoda
Subphlum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Spirobolida
Family: Pachybolidae
Genus: Crurifarcimen
Species: C. vagans