Illacme tobini - new millipede species

Near Yucca Mountain, Sequoia National Park, California, researchers discovered a new millipede species. Illacme tobini has 414 legs, 4 gonopods (four legs modified into penises), 200 poison glands and silk-secreting hairs. The new species is a relative of Illacme plenipes, the “leggiest animal on the planet“ with 750 legs. Credit: A new species of Illacme Cook & Loomis, 1928 from Sequoia National Park, California, with a world catalog of the Siphonorhinidae (Diplopoda, Siphonophorida) Paul E. Marek, Jean