Do centipedes really have 100 legs and millipedes 1,000?

Answer 1

Some centipedes have hundred or more legs but no millipedes got a thousand.

Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are fast-moving venomous, predatory, terrestrial arthropods that have long bodies and many jointed legs. How many legs a centipede has depends on its species and age. Despite their name, which stems from the Latin words 'centum' (meaning 'hundred') and 'ped' (meaning 'foot'), thus mean "hundred legged" not many centipedes actually have as many as that number. Some have as few as 15 pairs, others have as many as 173 pairs, but most sorts have about 35 pairs. They normally have around half that number of legs, though it is possible to find centipedes with over 200 legs. Centipedes are highly segmented but with only one pair of walking legs per segment.

Millipedes (Class Diplopoda, previously also known as Chilognatha) are very elongated arthropods with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments (except for the first segment behind the head which does not have any appendages at all, and the next few which only have one pair of legs). Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one. The millipede's most obvious feature is its large number of legs. If you want to know how many legs a millipede has, count the number of body segments and multiply by four. Its name is a compound word formed from the Latin roots milli ("thousand") and ped ("foot") meaning "thousand foot" but these creatures do not have a thousand legs, although there are rare species like "Illacme plenipes" that have up to 750 legs.( Illacme plenipes, typically have more 650 legs; the leggiest ever found in 1926 had 750. However, common species have between 80 and 400 legs.♥

Answer 2

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Do centipedes really have 100 legs and millipedes 1,000?

Answer 3

No, centipedes have less than 100 legs but their bodies are sometimes separated into joints, which some species have up to 100 joints. On the other hand, millipedes though having more legs than centipedes, do not have 1000 legs, but most of them have approximately 100-400 legs.

Answer 4

Despite their name, which stems from the Latin words 'centum' (meaning 'hundred') and 'ped' (meaning 'foot'), they normally have around half that number of legs, though it is possible to find centipedes with over 200 legs.

The millipede's most obvious feature is its large number of legs. In fact its name is a compound word formed from the Latin roots milli ("thousand") and ped ("foot"). Despite their name, these creatures do not have a thousand legs, although the rare species Illacme plenipes have up to 750[1]. However, common species have between 80 and 400 legs.

Answer 5

What do you think! Yes (cough! cough!). Nah just playing with ya. They don't okay but the millipede still has more legs.

Answer 6

Yes that is a very true statement ..I was very lucky to capture 1 of each and freeze them I then counted each leg ...that was no easy task it was in fact true ....

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

Yes otherwise why would they name them that.