Is a centipede a mammal

Answer 1

yes centipedes have legs all the way down their body

The name "Centipede" in latin terms, means 100 feet. But despite this name, not all centipedes have 100 legs. The number of legs varies fron 20 to 300.

Answer 2

No, a centipede is not a mammal. Centipedes are arthropods, belonging to the class Chilopoda. Mammals are a separate class of animals characterized by features such as fur, mammary glands, and the ability to give live birth to young.

Answer 3

Centipedes are part of a super-group of invertebrates called arthropods along with millipedes, arachnids, crustaceans, and insects. Centipedes have poison claws that they use to subdue their prey.

Answer 4

No, they are not.

Answer

Like arachnids (Spiders, ticks, mites, scorpions, whip scorpions, sunspiders and amblypygids), centipedes are arthropods. However, of that great phylum (Arthropoda), centipedes are placed in a separate class to arachnids, the Class Chilopoda.

Answer 5

The centipede be not a crustacean, but a myriapod, which is a type of bug. I have heard a similar story that the Pillbug/Roly-poly/whatever-else-people-call-it being a crustacean, but those are not true.

Answer 6

No. An identifying feature of insects is that they have 6 legs. Centipedes have more than that. They are an arthropod, but are in the class Chilopoda, not Insecta.

Answer 7

A centipede is a mammal because it has hair and it breathes with it's lungs. All mammals breathe with lungs and have hair or fur.
No, a centipede is not a mammal.

Answer 8

No, centipedes are not arachnids. Centipedes belong in the Class Chilopoda, whereas arachnids belong in the Class Arachnida. Both classes come from the Phylum Arthropoda.

Answer 9

No. A centipede is an arthropod with an exoskeleton and legs. A worm is an annelid with no skeleton and no legs.

Though Centipedes are very different than any other creature there is!

Answer 10

Yes. Centipedes have no backbone.