Motyxia is a genus of cyanide-producing millipedes (collectively known as Sierra luminous millipedes or motyxias[1]) that are endemic to the southern Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, and Santa Monica mountain ranges of California. Motyxias are blind and produce the poison cyanide, like all members of the Polydesmida. All species have the ability to glow brightly: some of the few known instances of bioluminescence in millipedes.
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Motyxia is a genus of cyanide-producing millipedes (collectively known as Sierra luminous millipedes or motyxias) that are endemic to the southern Sierra...
Geophilus carpophagus Orphnaeus brevilabiatus Certain millipedes Genus Motyxia Some land snails Quantula striata Quantula weinkauffiana Genus Phuphania...
haydeniana of the western U.S. The Sierra luminous millipedes of the genus Motyxia exhibit the only known examples of bioluminescence in the Polydesmida....
some have aposematic colouring to warn that they are toxic. Species of Motyxia produce cyanide as a chemical defence and are bioluminescent. Body styles...
Gardner, 1969 i c g Mimuloria c g b Montaphe Chamberlin, 1949 i c g b Motyxia Chamberlin, 1941 i c g b Nannaria Chamberlin, 1918 i c g b Nikkonus c g...
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