Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Xystocheir dissecta

This endemic California millipede can be found during the rainy season foraging on decaying plant matter. At night in the presence of ultraviolet light their cuticles are fluorescent, which is different than some other millipedes who are bioluminescent…able to produce light.

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