Chilopoda

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Noun1.Chilopoda - arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedesChilopoda - arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes
class Chilopoda
Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
centipede - chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors
family Scutigeridae, Scutigeridae - a family of Chilopoda
Geophilomorpha, order Geophilomorpha - small elongate centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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(1915) New chilopods from Mexico and the West Indies.
REGISTRO DEL CIEMPIES SCOLOPENDRA POLYMORPHA WOOD, 1861 (CHILOPODA: SCOLOPENDROMORPHA: SCOLOPENDRIDAE) EN LA ISLA MARIA CLEOFAS, OCEANO PACIFICO DE MEXICO
An illustrated key to the chilopods of the north-central region of the United States.
Discovery of an exotic population of Thereuonema tuberculata (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha), the Japanese House Centipede, in Ohio, U.S.A
Regarding the invertebrates, there are reports of predation by coleopterans, chilopods, solpugids, others scorpions and spiders (Cloudsley-Thompson, 1960; Williams, 1966; Cloudsley-Thompson, 1977; Punzo, 1998; McCormick and Polis, 1990; Melic, 2000).
First record of a brown widow spider Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841 (Araneae, Theridiidae) feeding scorpion (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae) in a Brazilian Atlantic forest

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