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Harpagomorpha (millipede)

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Diplopoda

Family
  
Paradoxosomatidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Polydesmida

Genus
  
Harpagomorpha Jeekel 1980

Harpagomorpha is a genus of millipede in the family Paradoxosomatidae containing a single species, H. dentata, known from the Nilgiri mountains, Southern India. H. dentata was originally described by Swiss zoologist Johann Carl in 1932 under the name Orthomorpha dentata, and transferred to its own genus by Dutch zoologist C. A. W. Jeekel in 1980.

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