A Thousand Legs

The name means thousand-footed but no millipede has a thousand feet.

A thousand legs. That summer tested me and tested me good. Regardless they can be an unwelcome sight around your. Centipedes and millipedes both belong to a subphylum of arthropods called Myriapoda a word meaning ten thousand feet.

Like all arthropods they have skeletons that are on the outside of their bodies and segmented jointed legs. The term milpies is used to refer to diplopods that have two pairs of feet per segment unlike centipedes which have one pair of legs for each ring. They are elongated creatures with many legs that are commonly found in most homes and even commercial buildings.

All the discovered species have between 34 and 750 limbs. I dont know for sure what you mean by thousand leg buga millipede. Millipedes commonly have between 34 and 400 legs but.

But although the name is meant to. Scientists in Australia have discovered the first millipede species to possess more than a thousand legs. Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary published 1913 by G.

Centipedes or Thousand-Leggers in common vernacular are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda. The number of legs on a centipede or millipede depends on the species. Seven hundred and fifty seems like a lot of legs for an animal.

It is a long and thin creature with no less than 1306 legs. Though they may look as if they have a thousand legs in fact they have just one pair of legs per body segment so centipedes typically have between 30 to 70 legs. More From Family Handyman.