Definitions

1. Centipedes (from Latin prefix centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis, " foot ") are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda and the Subphylum Myriapoda. (Web site)
2. Centipedes are flattened compared to millipedes and only have one pair of legs per body segment.
3. Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are fast-moving, venomous, predatory, terrestrial arthropods that have long bodies and many jointed legs.
4. Centipedes are carnivorous and predacious, immobilizing their prey, usually consisting of smaller arthropods, with the aid of their fangs. (Web site)
5. Centipedes are predators, and mainly use their antennae to seek out their prey. (Web site)

Onychophorans

1. Other classes are onychophorans (velvet worms), diplopods (millipedes) and chilopods (centipedes). (Web site)

Uniramians

1. Uniramians include centipedes, millipedes and the biggest group of arthropods. (Web site)

Symphylans

1. Symphylans have twelve pairs of legs and resemble the centipedes. (Web site)

Painful

1. The bite of centipedes may be painful to humans but is not deadly and usually only results in localised swelling and irritation. (Web site)

Inches

1. Centipedes are fast runners and vary in length of up to one to two inches. (Web site)

Translucent

1. Symphylans resemble centipedes, but are smaller and translucent. (Web site)

Terrestrial

1. All centipedes are terrestrial, but they require moist microhabitats. (Web site)
2. This taxonomic class includes 20 families and more than 2500 species of centipedes, all terrestrial. (Web site)

Relatives

1. Uniramians are a group that include insects, centipedes, millipedes, and their relatives. (Web site)

Barnacles

1. The study included nematodes, scorpions, dragonflies, barnacles, copepods and centipedes.

Leaf Litter

1. Most millipedes are slower than centipedes, and feed on leaf litter and detritus. (Web site)

Terrestrial Arthropods

1. Terrestrial arthropods like insects, millipedes, & centipedes have a system of hollow air tubes called tracheae as their respiratory system. (Web site)
2. Chilopoda or centipedes are poisonous predators feeding on other terrestrial arthropods. (Web site)

Body Segment

1. Like insects, centipedes breathe through a tracheal system, typically with a single opening, or spiracle on each body segment. (Web site)

Myriapods

1. There are four main lineages of myriapods: Diplopoda (millipedes), Chilopoda (centipedes), Pauropoda, and Symphyla.

Flattened

1. Centipedes are flattened, and only have one pair of legs per segment.

Prey

1. Centipedes have one pair of legs on each segment, are skillful runners, are carnivores and have a poison to paralyze prey. (Web site)
2. Centipedes have pair of poison claws behind the head and use the poison to paralyze their prey, usually small insects. (Web site)

Pair

1. Centipedes have only one pair of legs per body segment, run rapidly and are beneficial predators. (Web site)
2. Centipedes have a rounded or flattened head, bearing a pair of antennae at the forward margin. (Web site)
3. Centipedes, in addition to their mouthparts, possess a pair of "poison claws" or forcipules. (Web site)

Pairs

1. Centipedes differ from millipedes in that millipedes have two pairs of legs on most segments and bodies which are not flattened. (Web site)
2. Millipedes: They are slower and more cylindrical than centipedes and have two pairs of appendages on each body segment. (Web site)

Species

1. Class Chilopoda includes the 5,000 species of centipedes, all of which are terrestrial. (Web site)
2. The geophilomorph centipedes have variable segment numbers within species, yet as with all centipedes they always have an odd number of pairs of legs. (Web site)
3. There are four classes of extant myriapods, Chilopoda (centipedes), Diplopoda, Pauropoda and Symphyla, containing a total of around 12,000 species [ 9]. (Web site)

Beetles

1. Predators such as centipedes and beetles often eat them. (Web site)

Fangs

1. Centipedes have a more flattened body, move rapidly, and prey on small invertebrates using their fangs and venom glands. (Web site)

Exoskeleton

1. Centipedes also have jointed legs and a exoskeleton. (Web site)

Animals

1. Chilopoda: These are a kind of Arthropods and include animals such as the centipedes.

Spiders

1. Chief foods are small insects, spiders, centipedes, earthworms, and other scorpions. (Web site)
2. Predators include centipedes, spiders, ground-beetles, scorpions, skunk-spiders, pseudoscorpions, ants, and some mites. (Web site)
3. You'll find insects, spiders, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, centipedes, and even hundreds of extinct species in fossils. (Web site)

Legs

1. Myriapods comprise millipedes and centipedes and their relatives and have many body segments, each bearing one or two pairs of legs.
2. Millipedes and centipedes have long, segmented bodies with many legs. (Web site)
3. Centipedes have one pair of legs per segment, and millipedes have two pairs per segment. (Web site)

Arachnids

1. Most recent molecular studies had grouped these arachnids in Chelicerata together with millipedes and centipedes of the Myriapoda. (Web site)

Crustaceans

1. The most common respiratory pigment in arthropods is copper -based hemocyanin; this is used by many crustaceans and a few centipedes. (Web site)
2. Although more traditionally grouped with millipedes and centipedes, evidence has emerged favoring closer evolutionary ties with the crustaceans. (Web site)

Insects

1. A few species are omnivorous or carnivorous, and may prey on small arthropods, such as insects and centipedes, or on earthworms.
2. But the new analysis puts millipedes and centipedes together with crustaceans and insects in a group taxonomists had long ago named Mandibulata. (Web site)
3. The phylum Mandibulata includes Hexapoda (Insects) and Myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, and their kin).

Scorpions

1. Other arthropods, too, had brains that were uniquely their own: spiders, scorpions, centipedes and crabs could all be told apart by their brains. (Web site)
2. This scorpion is commonly found in homes and feeds on insects, spiders, centipedes and other scorpions and is active mostly at night. (Web site)
3. Scorpions are nocturnal, predatory animals that feed on a variety of insects, spiders, centipedes, and other scorpions. (Web site)

Arthropods

1. Arthropods include animals such as centipedes, crabs, insects, and spiders. (Web site)
2. Myriapods are a group of arthropods which includes millipedes, centipedes, pauropods, and symphylans. (Web site)
3. The largest major group of arthropods is a clade that includes insects, millipedes, centipedes, and their relatives. (Web site)

Millipedes

1. This phylum includes the insects, spiders, mites and ticks, crustaceans, centipedes, millipedes, isopods, and trilobites.
2. The term "arthropod" includes insects, mites, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, pill bugs and symphylans. (Web site)
3. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, symphylans, pauropodans, and the extinct trilobites.

Centipedes

1. Arthropods include insects, arachnids (spiders and their relatives), centipedes, millipedes, and crustaceans like crabs, lobsters, and shrimp. (Web site)
2. These animals are called arthropods and include insects, spiders, mites, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes and crustaceans. (Web site)
3. Arthropods are animals with jointed legs and segmented bodies, such as insects, spiders, centipedes, and crustaceans. (Web site)

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