How many legs has a millipede?

Answer 1

This is hard to answer.....

This is Because We Are Never Certain, people say around 750....this may help:

Some centipedes have hundred or more legs but no millipedes got a thousand.

Centipedes (Class Chilopoda) are fast-moving venomous, predatory, terrestrial arthropods that have long bodies and many jointed legs. How many legs a centipede has depends on its species and age. Despite their name, which stems from the Latin words 'centum' (meaning 'hundred') and 'ped' (meaning 'foot'), thus mean "hundred legged" not many centipedes actually have as many as that number. Some have as few as 15 pairs, others have as many as 173 pairs, but most sorts have about 35 pairs. They normally have around half that number of legs, though it is possible to find centipedes with over 200 legs. Centipedes are highly segmented but with only one pair of walking legs per segment.

Millipedes (Class Diplopoda, previously also known as Chilognatha) are very elongated arthropods with cylindrical bodies that have two pairs of legs for each one of their 20 to 100 or more body segments (except for the first segment behind the head which does not have any appendages at all, and the next few which only have one pair of legs). Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one. The millipede's most obvious feature is its large number of legs. If you want to know how many legs a millipede has, count the number of body segments and multiply by four. Its name is a compound word formed from the Latin roots milli ("thousand") and ped ("foot") meaning "thousand foot" but these creatures do not have a thousand legs, although there are rare species like "Illacme plenipes" that have up to 750 legs.( Illacme plenipes, typically have more 650 legs; the leggiest ever found in 1926 had 750. However, common species have between 80 and 400 legs.♥

Answer 2

Despite their name, millipedes do not have a thousand legs. Most species of millipedes have between 30 and 400 legs, with the number of legs varying depending on the species. Each body segment typically has two pairs of legs.

Answer 3

The name millipede means one thousand legs, but they don't actually have that many. They usually have somewhere around 750 legs.

Answer 4

it doesn't actually have 1000 legs it really grows to 750 legs (max) scientist named it millipede because it had so many legs

Answer 5

Species can vary greatly, but can start at 30 going all the way to the highest recorded amount of legs 750!

Answer 6

one million legs :)

Answer 7

36 to 400 legs

Answer 8

36 to 400