Diplopoda, de Blainville in Gervais, 1844

Nicholson, Daniel J., Tapley, Benjamin, Jayson, Stephanie, Dale, James, Harding, Luke, Spencer, Jenny, Sulton, Machel, Durand, Stephen & Cunningham, Andrew A., 2017, Development of in-country live food production for amphibian conservation: The Mountain Chicken Frog (Leptodactylus fallax) on Dominica, West Indies, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 149) 11 (2), pp. 59-68 : 64

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13227140

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Diplopoda
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The harvesting of millipedes was opportunistic, therefore the numbers offered to the frogs as food varied as a result. Despite being consumed by wild L. fallax ( Brooks Jr 1982) , observations of feeding behavior of captive L. fallax showed that all millipedes species were regurgitated after ingestion. The use of millipedes as a food item was therefore stopped at the facility. It is possible that the species of millipede provisioned in captivity is different to that observed as a wild food source by Brooks Jr (1982).

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