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Giant Red Centipede
Scoplopendra subspinipes
12.2893, 102.24
Field Notes
Description:
30cm.Biggest Iv'e seen.
Habitat:
Rainforest
Notes:
The giant red centipede, Scolopendra subspinipes Leach, 1815. is distributed in China, East Asia, S.E. Asia, including Thailand, and downwards to Australia. Centipedes (centi=100, ped=foot) are arthropods have between 15 and 191 pairs of legs, always an odd number.Generally called hundred-legged arthropods. Each body segment bears one pair of legs. The first pair of appendages modified to be poisonous claws.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJune 24, 2013
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