Spinotarsus caboverdus

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Spinotarsus caboverdus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Diplopoda
Subclass: Helminthomorpha
Order: Spirostreptida
Family: Odontopygidae
Genus: Spinotarsus
Species: S. caboverdus
Binomial name
Spinotarsus caboverdus
Pierrard, 1987

Spinotarsus caboverdus, commonly known as "Mil-pés" (Portuguese for "thousand-feet") are a species of millipedes that are found primarily in Santo Antão island of Cape Verde, where a blight of these animals has made the government issue a prohibition on the exportation of many of the island's products to the other islands.[1]

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