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  2. Centipede - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Aphilodon silvestrii - Wikipedia

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    Aphilodon silvestrii is a species of soil centipede in the subfamily Aphilodontinae, a clade formerly known as the family Aphilodontidae [1] but now deemed a subfamily within the family Geophilidae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This centipede can have 67, 69, or 71 pairs of legs and is notable for its size, reaching 61 mm in length, which is among the ...

  4. Muehlenbeckia platyclada - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Fruit (plant structure) - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a typical drupe (in this case, a peach), showing both fruit and seed A schematic picture of an orange hesperidium A segment of an orange that has been opened to show the pulp (juice vesicles) of the endocarp. Fruit anatomy is the plant anatomy of the internal structure of fruit.

  6. Geophilus flavus - Wikipedia

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    Geophilus flavus is a terrestrial, soil-dwelling, species of centipede [2] in the Geophilidae family. G. flavus occurs in a range of habitats across central Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand and other tropical regions. [3]

  7. Scolopendra subspinipes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Geophilomorpha - Wikipedia

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    Geophilomorpha is an order of centipedes commonly known as soil centipedes. [1] The name "Geophilomorpha" is from Ancient Greek roots meaning "formed to love the earth." [2] This group is the most diverse centipede order, with 230 genera. [3] These centipedes are found nearly worldwide but are absent in Antarctica and most Arctic regions. [4]

  9. Scutigera - Wikipedia

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    Scutigera is a centipede genus in the scutigeromorph (house centipede) family Scutigeridae, a group of centipedes with long limbs and true compound eyes (which were once thought to be secondary, re-evolved "pseudofacetted eyes" [1]).