how many legs does a centipede have?

Answer 1

The best formula is one pair in each segment of the body, leaving the head. Count the number of segments of a species and get the number of feet. Fore millipedes, you apply the same rule except that in this case there are two pairs of legs per segment.

Answer 2

Centipedes are reddish-brown, flattened, elongated arthropods with one pair of legs attached on most of their body segments. The first pair of legs is modified into poisonous jaws located below the mouth to kill insects.
Despite their name (which means "100 legs"), centipedes do not all have 100 legs.
Centipedes have from 15 to about 177 segments (but most have about 15).
That means that Centipedes have between 30 and 354 legs.

Answer 3

Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are fast-moving venomous, predatory, terrestrial arthropods that have long bodies and many jointed legs. Chiefly nocturnal, centipedes are found primarily in tropical climates but are also widely distributed in temperate zones.

Some species are highly venomous and often produce very painful bites but only one human death has ever been recorded - from a bite on the head of a young child by a large centipede on a Pacific island[1] - though severe reactions have also occasionally been recorded in adults.

Like the millipedes, centipedes are highly segmented (15 to 173 segments), but with only one pair of walking legs per segment. Centipedes are dorso-ventrally flattened, and are among the fastest and most agile of non-flying arthropod predators.

The head of a centipede has a pair of antennae, jaw-like mandibles, and other mouthparts. The most anterior trunk segment of a centipede has a pair of venomous claws (called maxillipedes) that are used for both defense and for capturing and paralyzing prey. Despite their name, which stems from the Latin words centum (meaning 'hundred') and pes, pedis (meaning 'foot'), they normally have around half that number of legs, though it is possible to find centipedes with over 200 legs.

The house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) is a fast-moving carnivore that feeds on insects such as cockroaches, house flies, and other small house pests, and is thus domestically beneficial in nature. Though generally harmless to humans, its alarming appearance and painful bite result in its extermination from residences. The bite of a smaller centipede in temperate areas may be similar to a bee sting, but the bite of a larger tropical species is excruciatingly painful, leaving two black puncture wounds about a centimeter apart.
Centipedes, which are members of the class Chilopoda, always have an uneven number of pairs of walking legs, ranging from 15 to more than 171. The true centipedes (order Scolopendromorpha) have either 21 or 23 pairs of legs. Common house centipedes (Scutigera coleoptrato) have 15 pairs of legs

Answer 4

100

Answer 5

Depending upon the species, usually somewhere between 50 and 200.
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Answer 6

I'm guessing near 100 because centi means 100

Answer 7

I guess nearly a hundred (as the name suggests) but it has likely to have differences on each species.

Answer 8

Depends on the species.