Millipede gonopods are the sexually-modified legs of adult males, upon which millipede identification heavily relies. However, citizen science observations of millipedes rarely include high-quality gonopod images. This project collects manually-added, verifiable observations identified to subclass Chilognatha or a child taxon therein (since millipedes in Penicillata lack gonopods) that feature high quality gonopod images. 'High quality' means that the gonopod's perspective, resolution, focus, and lighting can reasonably be expected to form the basis of a precise identification. The aim of this project is to make it easy for experts to locate observations for identification and research, and to encourage more naturalists to feature gonopods in their millipede observations.

Parent project: Genitalia
Project icon: Gonopod of Taxidiotisoma portabile less ↑