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Cryptopid Centipede

Theatops californienisi

Description:

Size ( adult length ):10mm to 65mm ( 0.39in to 2.56in) Identifying colors: brown, red, tan, and orange Additional descriptors: legs, princers

Habitat:

Under a stump in moist soil

Notes:

Other family members are known to have painfull bites, also their second name is stone centipede.kingdom animalia. Family crptyopidae Entered by group 3

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9 Comments

elmschool20
elmschool20 7 years ago

Awesome find but I'm terrified of centipedes

elmschool9
elmschool9 7 years ago

careful poisonous fluid oozes out from under armor plates sometimes when it senses danger)-(when it feels threatened!!)

(not all centipedes and millipedes do so!)

elmschool6
elmschool6 7 years ago

I like the centipede!!!!!!!!!!

elmschool4
elmschool4 7 years ago

Awesome they HAVE SO MANY LEGS!

How did you find such an interesting animal.

elmschool1
elmschool1 7 years ago

Way cool!!!!!

elmschool5
elmschool5 7 years ago

cool

elmschool11
elmschool11 7 years ago

cool

elmschool2
elmschool2 7 years ago

cool pic!

elmschool7
elmschool7 7 years ago

cool

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Spotted on May 24, 2016
Submitted on May 31, 2016

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