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Slender snake millipede

Boreoiulus tenuis (Bigler, 1913)

Status not recordedother invertebrates

The slender snake millipede (Boreoiulus tenuis) is a species in the class Diplopoda.

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Quick facts about the slender snake millipede

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the slender snake millipede live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the slender snake millipede as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Denmark
  2. Iceland

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the slender snake millipede endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the slender snake millipede classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classDiplopoda
  4. genusBoreoiulus
  5. SpeciesBoreoiulus tenuis (Bigler, 1913)

Synonyms Monacobates marcomannius, Monacobates tenuis

Other names and names in other languages (7)
  • Schlanker TüpfeltausendfüßerGerman
  • NátvífætlaIcelandic
  • småperletusenbeinNorwegian Bokmål
  • SlankstipDutch
  • SmåpärlfotingSwedish
  • SlankstipjeDutch
  • blindpärlfotingSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the slender snake millipede

Other species in the same genus Boreoiulus.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the slender snake millipede an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the slender snake millipede as introduced in 2 countries: Denmark and Iceland, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

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Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Slender snake millipede (Boreoiulus tenuis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/slender-snake-millipede

MLA

“Slender snake millipede (Boreoiulus tenuis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/slender-snake-millipede.

BibTeX
@misc{slender_snake_millipede_2026,
  title = {Slender snake millipede (Boreoiulus tenuis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/slender-snake-millipede},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}