Millipedes are arthropods, related to insects, crabs, and spiders.
It has an exoskeleton made of chitin, and as its name suggests it has an abundance of legs. Milliped means a thousand legs. The current record is 750 legs for a milliped in California known as Illacme plenipes. They have been reported in North America, Chile, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and in Siberia. Some have estimated that there are as many as 80,000 species of millipeds.