Illacme plenipes Cook & Loomis, 1928:12
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1928
Rediscovered in: 2005
Distribution
California, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Cook, O. and Loomis, H. (1928). Millipeds of the order Colobognatha, with descriptions of six new genera and type species, from Arizona and California. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 72(18): 1-26.
Other references:
Chamberlin, R. V. and Hoffman, R. L. (1958). Checklist of the millipeds of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin, 212: 1-236 [189]. Washington D. C.
Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication. 8: 1-584 [195].
Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412 [39]. Amsterdam.
Jeekel, C. A. W. (2001). A bibliographic catalogue of the Siphonophorida (Diplopoda). Myriapod memoranda 3: 44-71 [46]. Oisterwijk
Marek, Paul E. and Bond, Jason. (2006). Rediscovery of the world’s leggiest animal. Nature 441: 707. [Abstract]
Marek, Paul E., Krejca, J. K. and Shear, W. A. (2016). A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida). ZooKeys. 626: 1-43. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.9681
Marek, Paul E., Shear, William and Bond, Jason. (2012). A redescription of the leggiest animal, the millipede Illacme plenipes, with notes on its natural history and biogeography (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida, Siphonorhinidae). ZooKeys 241: 77-112. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.241.3831
Pensoft Publishers. (2012, November 14). Leggiest animal on Earth lives in outskirts of Silicon Valley. ScienceDaily. Retrieved December 13, 2013, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2012/11/121114113450.htm
Sierwald, P., Decker, P. and Spelda, J. (2024). MilliBase. Illacme plenipes Cook & Loomis, 1928. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=938741 on 2025-04-03
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