Meanings (ES + gloss)
ciempiés • escolopendra
Any arthropod of class Chilopoda, which have a segmented body with one pair of legs per segment and from about 20 to 300 legs in total.
Centipedes differ from millipedes by having a single pair of legs on each body segment.
The existence of millipedes, centipedes, insects, and spiders along-side the first tetrapods sustained a robust ecosystem in which most animals were predators or scavengers.
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