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title: "White-legged Snake Millipede"
description: "Tachypodoiulus niger — Altri animali. Tachypodoiulus niger, known variously as the white-legged snake millipede or the black millipede, is a European species of millipede."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/white-legged-snake-millipede
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White-legged Snake Millipede

> Tachypodoiulus niger — Altri animali. Tachypodoiulus niger, known variously as the white-legged snake millipede or the black millipede, is a European species of millipede.

- Scientific name: *Tachypodoiulus niger*
- Category: `other` (Altri animali)
- Habitats: `forest` (Foresta)
- iNaturalist observations: 3966
- Wikidata: [Q1947654](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1947654)
- iNaturalist taxon: [336946](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/336946)

## Names

- en: White-legged Snake Millipede
- de: Schwarzer Schnurfüßer
- nl: Witpootkronkel

## Countries with the most observations

GB (1302), FR (538), DE (345), IE (39), CH (30), LU (25), BE (18), ES (18), AT (6), IM (3), PL (3)

## Summary

Tachypodoiulus niger, known variously as the white-legged snake millipede or the black millipede, is a European species of millipede. It is very similar to other species such as Cylindroiulus londinensis, from which it can be reliably distinguished only by studying the shape of the telson. It occurs in Ireland,  Britain, Spain, France, Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic, and is especially common on chalky and limestone soils.
T. niger has a roughly cylindrical shiny black body, with around 100 pairs of contrasting white legs on its 41–56 body segments. It lives in leaf litter, under bark…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachypodoiulus_niger

## Photo

![White-legged Snake Millipede](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-legged-snake-millipede/medium.jpg)

Photo: Munster Mad · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258370752

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-legged-snake-millipede?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).