No. They don't have exactly 100 legs. It depends on the species; centipedes can have up to 15 pairs of legs to a 180. Because they're called 'centipedes' doesn't mean that they have to have 100 legs. It's the same with millipedes, they can have up to 200 pairs.
No, although 'centi' means 100, no species have been found with that many legs, all centipedes have one pair of legs for each body segment, the largest is the Geophilomorpha with 29 segments or 58 legs.
Although some species of centipede do indeed have 100 legs it can vary from less than 100 to 200. Therefore it is more correct to say that a centipede can have 100 legs rather than it does have this many.
Yes, some do. Hatchlings have fewer legs than adults of the same species and some species have more legs than other species. Instead of counting all their legs, count the number of legs per body segment. A centipede will have a pair of legs on each segment.
The amount of legs a centipede has varies on the species. They have from 30 to 350 legs
A centipede can have more then 100 legs.
No, they don't.
Centipede means "a hundred feet" which is close.
The term centipede means "one hundred feet" but centipedes (arthropods of the class Chilopoda) have between 30 and 384 legs and feet, with the number of pairs always an odd number.
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An centipede has exactly 100 legs.
All centipedes have 100 legs, hence the name centipede (centi meaning 100).
"Centipede" (Cent = 100; Ped = Foot) means 100 footies. There is a creature called a "Centipede" which has many, many legs and feet.
a centepide has 100 legs
Centipedes are said to have 100 feet but they have two feet per body segment. They don't have 100 segments.
A centapead has 1,000 legs
A centipede is an insect that has 100 legs.
If you just look at the prefix on the name. 'Centi' translates to mean 100 and milli translates to mean 1000. However, most of either species don't have as many legs as their name implies. Although some species of centipede do indeed have 100 legs it can vary from less than 100 to 200. Therefore it is more correct to say that a centipede can have 100 legs rather than it does have this many. Yes, centipede really does mean "100-footed," and yes, some centipedes actually do have 100 feet, but no, not all do. In fact, some centipedes have more than 100 feet, and some have as few as 30. Perhaps, mathematicians , not scientists, should have done the calculations, and should have named this member of the species "Myriapoda," Latin for many footed. Likewise, a millipede likely doesn't have 1,000 feet, as it's name implies.
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