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Polyzoniida
__NOTOC__ Polyzoniida is an order of millipedes in the subterclass Colobognatha. This order contains three families and more than 70 described species. The species in this order are also known as camphor millipedes, because ozopore secretions in this order frequently have a strong camphor-like smell. Poison frogs in South America and Madagascar evidently obtain some of their poison from these millipedes.
Eumillipes
Eumillipes is a genus of millipede in the family Siphonotidae. This genus contains a single species, Eumillipes persephone, known from the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. This millipede can have as many as 1,306 legs, which makes this species the animal with the most legs on Earth and the first millipede discovered to have 1,000 legs or more.
Siphonotidae
Siphonotidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyzoniida. This family includes more than 70 species distributed among 13 genera. These millipedes are found in South America, South Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Polyzonium germanicum
species of myriapod
Hirudisomatidae
Hirudisomatidae is a family of colobognathan millipedes in the order Polyzoniida. The approximately 20 species occur from Spain to the Himalayas in Eurasia, Japan, and in North America from southwest Canada to central Mexico.
Rhinotus purpureus
species of myriapod
Polyzoniidae
Polyzoniidae is a family of millipedes in the order Polyzoniida. There are about 9 genera and at least 60 described species in Polyzoniidae.
Octoglena bivirgata
species of myriapod
Petaserpes
Petaserpes is a genus of millipedes in the family Polyzoniidae. There are about six described species in Petaserpes.
Rhinotus
Rhinotus is a genus of millipedes in the family Siphonotidae. There are at least 20 described species of the family Rhinotus.
Bdellozonium
Bdellozonium is a genus of millipedes in the family Polyzoniidae. There are at least two described species in Bdellozonium.
Octoglena
Octoglena is a genus of millipedes in the family Hirudisomatidae. There are about seven described species in Octoglena. thumb|Octoglena sierra