| Odontopygidae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Diplopoda |
| Order: | Spirostreptida |
| Family: | Odontopygidae |
Odontopygidae is a family of millipedes belonging to the order Spirostreptida. [1]
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Spirostreptida is an order of long, cylindrical millipedes. There are approximately 1000 described species, making Spirostreptida the third largest order of millipedes after Polydesmida and Chordeumatida.
Bandeirenica caboverda, locally known in Cape Verde as "mil-pés", is a species of millipedes of the family Odontopygidae. It is endemic to Cape Verde, where it occurs in the islands of Santo Antão and São Vicente. First described in 1987 as Spinotarsus caboverdus, it was placed in the genus Bandeirenica in 2000.
Richard Lawrence Hoffman was an American zoologist known as an international expert on millipedes, and a leading authority on the natural history of Virginia and the Appalachian Mountains. He was a biology professor at Virginia's Radford College for almost thirty years, and curator of invertebrates at the Virginia Museum of Natural History for another twenty years. He co-founded the Virginia Natural History Society, described over 400 species of millipedes, and produced more than 480 scientific publications. He is commemorated in the scientific and/or common names of over 30 animal species, including the valley and ridge salamander and Hoffman's dwarf centipede.