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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Soil Centipedes (Geophilomorpha) » Schendylidae » Schendyla » Schendyla nemorensis
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Unidentified Centipede - Schendyla nemorensis
Copyright © 2007 Matt Goff

Unidentified Centipede - Schendyla nemorensis
Sitka County, Alaska, USA
June 2, 2007
I found this centipede crawling around in the dirt after I lifted up a piece of plastic that had been covering garden soil over the winter.

Additional photos can be seen at
http://www.sitkanature.org/1000species/?p=86
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Contributed by Matt Goff on 8 June, 2007 - 1:50am
Last updated 3 April, 2014 - 8:50pm

Moved
Moved from Soil Centipedes.
… Ben Coulter, 3 April, 2014 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

Schendyla nemorensis
Based on:

- small and thin (even for geos)
- the terminal legs don't have claws, I used the pictures on the link for this bit
- not very many pedes are known from Alaska, and nemorensis is a common species found pretty much throughout the northern hemisphere
… Joseph DeSisto Alling, 3 April, 2014 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Centipedes.
… Eric R. Eaton, 30 January, 2009 - 3:05pm login or register to post comments

Hey Matt how are you? Only a
Hey Matt how are you? Only about 6 weeks now and I'll be back in Alaska myself, first at Kodiak, Seward, Anchorage,then Juneau, Ketchikan, Metlakatla, and POW Island. The centipede is a representative of the order Geophilmorpha, but I don't know any more than that; I've never learned these type of centipedes. Rowland Shelley, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.
… Rowland Shelley, 8 June, 2007 - 9:55pm login or register to post comments

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