''Schindalmonotus'' is a genus of
bristle millipede
Polyxenida is an Order (biology), order of millipedes readily distinguished by a unique body plan consisting of a soft, non-calcified body ornamented with tufts of bristles. These features have inspired the common names bristly millipedes or p ...
containing the sole species ''Schindalmonotus hystrix'' known from South Africa and Mozambique. Individuals are up to 4 mm long and have 12 body segments and 17 pairs of legs. The species was described by Austrian zoologist
Carl Attems
Carl August Graf Attems-Petzenstein (13 October 1868 in Graz, Austria – 19 April 1952 in Vienna) was an Austrian myriapoda, myriapodologist and invertebrate zoology, invertebrate zoologist. He published 138 scientific papers, most of them d ...
in 1928.
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Polyxenida
Millipedes of Africa
Monotypic myriapod genera
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