Volume 45, Number 3,
March 1999:
Centipedes and Millipedes with Emphasis on North America Fauna

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- classification of millipedes, section 1
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- behavior
- defense
- effects on humans
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Centipedes and Millipedes with Emphasis on North America Fauna
by Rowland M. Shelley

Dr. Rowland M. Shelley is Curator of Terrestrial Invertebrates at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina, P.O. Box 29555, Raleigh, NC 27626-055.

Acknowledgments: I thank my colleagues R.L. Hoffman, U.S.A., and H. Enghoff, Denmark, for suggestions on the text and advice on certain topics. I also thank my friends and colleagues who assisted with the illustrations, by either taking photos or donating ones from their personal collections: H. Ellis, Z. Korsos, J. Page, and the late D.L. Tiemann and N.B. Causey. The line drawings were prepared by R.G. Kuhler, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences Scientific Illustrator.

- Dr. R.M. Shelley