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It is agreed that the Chilopoda constitute a natural (monophyletic) group, but the systematics differ according to various sources. The morphological classification [1] has four orders distributed in two subclasses:
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Characteristics; Centipedes are easily recognisable but despite their name few actually posses 100 legs or more. They may be confused with millipedes but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: ... 1 pair of legs per body segment ... 1 pair of poison claws/fangs underneath the head...
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www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/chilopoda.html
www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/chilopoda.html
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Centipede - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Centipedes (from Latin prefix centi-, "hundred", and Latin pes, pedis , "foot") are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda and the Subphylum Myriapoda. They are elongated metameric animals wit...
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Dohle, W. 1985. Phylogenetic pathways in the Chilopoda. Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde 55:55-66. ... Dohle, W. 1990. Some observations on morphology and affinities of Craterostigmus tasmanianus (Chilopoda). Pages 69-79 in Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Myriapodology. A. Minelli, ed. Brill, Leiden.
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tolweb.org/tree?group=Chilopoda&contgroup=Arthropoda
tolweb.org/tree?group=Chilopoda&contgroup=Arthropoda
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Centipedes have large antennae and have only one pair of legs per body segment. The last legs extend backwards behind the body. Centipedes can run fast and can bite. ... There are five orders: Geophilomorpha, ... Predatory, they use "poison claws" to seize a variety of smaller organisms such as worms and insects, which are killed...
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The Chilopoda includes the true centipedes, like the one shown at the top left of this page. Chilopods have only one pair of legs per body segment. They are predators; ... thus, each adult segment of a millipede bears two pairs of legs. Unlike the predatory Chilopoda, most millipedes feed on decaying vegetation,
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www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/uniramia/myriapoda.htm...
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A trogloxenic or accidental centipede, order Scutigeromorpha (Class Chilopoda) in a Tennessee cave. Photo by Steve Taylor, 1999. ... [Go Back to Cave Critters] ... Illinois; Natural; History; Survey...
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www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~sjtaylor/cave/chilopoda.html
www.inhs.uiuc.edu/~sjtaylor/cave/chilopoda.html
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Chilopoda (Centipedes) ... The Class Chilopoda is divided into 5 orders. In some taxonomic schemes it is part of the Subphyllum Myriapoda. ... ; A Catalogue and Key to the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Bulgaria by Pavel Stoev ; Centipedes of the British Isles, by E. H. Eason ; Provisional Atlas of the Centipedes of the British...
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