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Bearded fireworm Bearded fireworm from the Mediterranean. Bearded fireworms are usually 15 cm (6 inches) in average length, but can reach up to 30 cm (12 inches). [1] [2]At first glance, this fire worm looks like a centipede with its elongated and flattened appearance, multiple segments, white silks, and parapodia and gills located on the side of its body.
Another crawly bug that looks like a centipede is the firebrat. Technically known as Thermobia domestica, this small hexapod has a fish-shaped body.Firebrats are wingless and are closely related ...
Centipedes are elongated segmented creatures 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 ...
It is similar to a variety of other European lithobiid centipedes, particularly the striped centipede, Lithobius variegatus, but L. forficatus does not have stripes on its legs. Lithobiids leave the egg with seven pairs of legs, and each time they molt, they develop additional body segments with a new pair of legs on each. [ 1 ]
Scolopendra cataracta is a giant centipede, growing to around 200 mm (7.9 in) in length; it has long legs and a greenish-black colour. [3] When exposed, it escapes into water. It both runs along stream beds and swims with eel-like horizontal undulations of its body.
Like other soil centipedes, this species is blind, has a flattened body, and is well adapted to life underground.This species also exhibits troglomorphic features (reflecting adaption to life in caves), such as elongated appendages (including long antennae, walking legs, and ultimate legs), as well as elongated trunk segments and unusually long claws on its legs.
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America's Next Top Model had its contestants catwalking on the program's runway, but also human centipede-ing in the audition process, according to cycle 9 model Sarah Hartshorne.