It varies depending on the species. Although 'centi' means 100, no species have been found with that many legs. All centipedes have one pair of legs for each body segment, and the largest is the Geophilomorpha with 29 segments or 58 legs.
They look a lot like crabs and many have the word 'crab' in their name, but are not true crabs. Anomurans can be told apart by the number of legs: crabs have ten legs, including claws, while the last pair of an anomuran's legs is hidden inside the shell, so that only eight legs are visible.
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.
The centipede is named by the number of legs it possesses. If you ever forget and ask yourself "how many legs does a centipede have?" just look at the prefix on the name. 'Cent' translates to mean 100 and there is your answer.
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.
Blue crabs have ten legs: two claws, six legs, and two flippers.
a crab has 10 legs and a crab is not a mammal.
A creeper has 4 legs
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The Centipede had 42 legs
A centapead has 1,000 legs
a centipede have 40 legs
A centipede has two legs per segment, one on each side. And they usually stick out to the side of the centipede. A milipede has 4 legs per segment, two on each side, and they are usually more under the body of the milipede.
A house centipede has up to 18 legs depending on the breed of centipede. This is the only insect that has that many legs.
An centipede has exactly 100 legs.
10,000,000 legs
A centipede can have up to 124 tiny legs, but a centipede is not the creature with the most legs . . . the millipede is.
The Centipede had 42 legs
There are over fifty species of centipede in the genus Scolopendra. They have about 40 legs.
A centapead has 1,000 legs
centipedes- 700-950 legs millipedes- 350,000-700,000 legs
All centipedes have 100 legs, hence the name centipede (centi meaning 100).
a centipede have 40 legs
a centepide has 100 legs
Centipede or Millipede
no! centipede have not have 3 pairs of legs!