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Schendylops oligopus is a species of soil centipede in the family Schendylidae. [1] This species is notable as one of only two species in the order Geophilomorpha known to include centipedes with only 27 pairs of legs, the minimum number recorded in this order.
Centipedes are elongated segmented animals with one pair of legs per body segment. All centipedes are venomous and can inflict painful stings, injecting their venom through pincer-like appendages known as forcipules or toxicognaths, which are actually modified legs instead of fangs. Despite the name, no species of centipede has exactly 100 legs ...
Schendylops is the largest genus of centipedes in the family Schendylidae, containing more than 60 species. [1] [2] This genus was first proposed by the American biologist Orator F. Cook in 1899 for the type species originally named Schendyla grandidieri in 1897.
Muehlenbeckia platyclada (synonym Homalocladium platycladum), [1] known as centipede plant, tapeworm plant or ribbonbush, is a species of plant in the knotweed family from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It is also naturalized in other tropical regions, [2] including Puerto Rico, [3] India, Bolivia, Madagascar, Nicaragua and Pakistan. [4]
Scolopendra are mostly very large centipedes. The largest species found in tropical climates can exceed 30 cm (12 in) and are the largest living centipedes in the world. [ 2 ] All Scolopendra species can deliver a painful bite , injecting venom through their forcipules , which are not fangs or other mouthparts; rather, these are modified legs ...
Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia. One of the most widespread and common species in the genus Scolopendra, it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean ...
Scolopendra cingulata, also known as Megarian banded centipede, [2] and the Mediterranean banded centipede, [3] is a species of centipede, [4] and "the most common scolopendromorph species in the Mediterranean area".
Schendylidae is a family of soil centipedes in the superfamily Himantarioidea and the order Geophilomorpha. [1] [2] These centipedes are found in the Americas, the Palearctic region, Africa, Madagascar, Australia, and southeast Asia, and also on some Pacific islands. [3] This family was first proposed by the American biologist Orator F. Cook in ...