EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Centipedes are dorsoventrally flattened with 15–173 segments, each with one pair of legs (Fig. 4(A). Poisonous forcipules (fangs) enable centipedes to kill and consume insects, other centipedes, annelids, molluscs, and sometimes small vertebrates.

Detailed explanation-2: -While both millipedes and centipedes belong to the phylum Arthropoda and to the subphylum Myriapoda, millipedes belong to the class Diplopoda and centipedes belong to the class Chilopoda.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arthropods are members of the taxonomic phylum Arthropoda, which includes insects, spiders, centipedes, millipedes and crustaceans.

Detailed explanation-4: -centipede, (class Chilopoda), any of various long, flattened, many-segmented predaceous arthropods. Each segment except the hindmost bears one pair of legs. Centipedes generally remain under stones, bark, and ground litter by day. At night they hunt for and capture other small invertebrates.