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Chilopoda Class - English
URL: http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/arthropoda/chilopoda.html

Centipedes are uniramian arthropods whose bodies are made up of a chain of many (up to 177) flattened segments, each except the one behind the head and last two bearing a single pair of appendages (legs). The appendages of the first body segment have been modified to form large, poisonous fangs that are used to capture prey. The bite of a large centipede, however, can be painful to an adult and dangerous to a small child.

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Integrated Pest Management: Oxilus Gracilis - English
URL: http://ipmwww.ncsu.edu/urban/cropsci/c11struc/cnpdes.html

Order: Polydesmida Family: Paradoxosomatidae. Millipedes are gray-to-brown arthropods with worm-like, cylindrical bodies, usually 13 to 38 mm long, with a pair of short antennae. Adults have at least 30 pairs of legs with two attached to most body segments. Known as thousand-legged worms, millipedes walk slowly, their legs moving in a wave-like motion. They curl up tightly when disturbed. Description, biology.

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Insects, millipedes, & centipedes - English
URL: http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/invert/21-Uniramia.html

Classification.

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Chilopoda / Centipedes / Chilopodes - English
URL: http://www.mnhn.fr/assoc/myriapoda/CHILOPOD.HTM

Centipedes are uniramian antennate and mandibulate arthropods whose bodies are made up of a chain of many (up to 177) more or less flattened segments, each except the one behind the head and last two bearing a single pair of locomotory appendages (legs). The appendages of the first body segment have been modified to form large, poisonous fangs that are used to capture living preys during active predation. Despite the fact that no centipede shows real danger for human beings, the bite of a large centipede such as a Sclolopendra, however, can be painful to an adult and dangerous to a small child.

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The Chilopoda (Centipedes) - English
URL: http://www.earthlife.net/insects/chilopod.html

Centipedes are an amazing group of animals, taxonomically they are most commonly considered to be part of the Myriapoda along with the Millipedes (Diplopoda), Symphyla and Pauropoda. However there is still much to be learned about the relatedness of all these arthropod groups, not only to each other but also to the Insecta and the more basal Onycophora. There are about 2 500 named species in the world.

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House Centipede - English
URL: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/housece.html

Centipedes are common arthropods with long, flattened, segmented bodies with one pair of legs per segment. The house centipede is up to 1 1/2 inches long and has 15 pairs of very long, almost thread-like, slender legs. Each leg is encircled by dark and white bands. The body is brown to grayish-yellow and has three dark stripes on top.

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