what is  the largest centipede in the world?
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the largest centipede in the world is ethmostigmus rubripes. They live in Australia. They are 14 cm long. They are apart of the scolopendrid family.
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According to the myrmecologists (ant specialists), there are over 20 000 species of ants on our planet, grouped into 350 different genera. It is in the ponerine tribe that the world's largest ants are found, namely, the Paraponera and the Dinoponera.\n \nThe Dinoponera gigantea are by far the largest, measuring up to three centimetres in length.
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1) Centipede:  Are venomous, predatory terrestrial arthropods.  Some species are highly venomous with extremely toxic venom on their claws which can cause death in humans.\n\n2) Millipede:  Many species emit somewhat poisonous liquid secretion or hydrogen cyanide gas through microscopic pores along the sides of their bodies as a secondary defense. \n\nAs far as humans are concerned, this chemical brew is fairly harmless, although it should never be eaten or applied to the eyes.\n\nHope these answer will help U...
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big flying cockroaches
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The largest crocodile ever recorded was a 29 foot saltwater crocodile near Australia. It weighed 2,400 pounds. Great white sharks also feed off the coast of Australia. The largest one of those was I believe 26 feet and over 6,000 pounds. They did this one on a show called "Animal Faceoff" on the discovery channel many months ago and the shark did win. I think the show has since been cancelled. Shark, all the way.
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The blue whale. It has been dubbed the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth; it bigger than even the biggest dinosaurs. It is on average between 80 and 100 ft. long. Females are bigger than males. The largest ever recorded when measurements were accepted world wide was 102ft. But befor there was standard world wide measurement, whaler claimed to have recorded a 108 foot blue whale, and a 110 foot blue whale; but scientist aren't sure how accurate those last two measerments are.\nThe baby is aslo the largest baby in the world.
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I agree with Anonymous.\n Whale shark 's the largest shark, also the largest filsh .\n It's about 12m in length and about 15 tons
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The largest known insect is the Goliath beetle, (Goliathus druryi).  It can grow up to 8 inches long and weighs as much as a small bird.\n\nand the longest is The Giant Australian stick insect (Exatosoma tiaratum), measuring in at 13 inches, is the longest known insect.
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clipped from www.wisegeek.com\n\nFor sheer length you can't beat a female Giant Walking Stick (Phobaeticus serratipes). Found in Malaysia and Singapore, looking like an assemblage of twigs, it is perfectly camouflaged among the branches where it lives. The longest specimen on record was an amazing 21.8" (55.5cm). Some people even keep these huge insects as pets.\n\nThe Giant Walking Stick may be long, but it doesn't have much mass. For that you have to turn to the giant scarab beetles. Among them, entomologists have settled on 5 contenders:\n\nThe South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus giganteus) of French Guiana makes perhaps the most impressive showing with a body length over 6.5" (16.7cms).\n\nA shorter but far thicker competitor is the Acteon Beetle (Megasoma acteon) of South America. Males can grow to 5.3" (13.5cms) long by 1.6" (4cms) thick. \n\nThe Elephant Beetle (Megasoma elephas) found in Mexico and Venezuela has a shorter body than the Aceton, but a longer snout, making its total recorded length 5.4" (13.7cms).\n\nBringing up the rear are two species of Goliathus: regius and goliatus, both measuring in at 4.3" (11cms).\n\nIn 1874 the Rev. J. G. Wood published Insects Abroad, in which he claimed to have in his possession a 9" (22.8cm) South American Longhorn Beetle (Titanus). A specimen this large has never been documented since, and no one is quite sure what method he used to measure the bug. Therefore the accepted recorded length remains at 6.5" (16.7cms), which still leads the top five contenders.\n\nAlthough the Giant Walking Stick and scarab beetles win for length and mass, for sheer weight you'll have to turn to the giant wetas (Deinacrida heteracantha) of New Zealand. A pregnant female can top the scales at over 2 ounces (71gms)! \n\nThere are well over 1 million insect species known, with an estimated 10 million still undocumented. However, the title of world's biggest insect remains a matter of what constitutes "biggest" to you: length, mass or weight!
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The Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus, is the largest mammal living today. It is also the largest mammal to have ever lived. In fact the Blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on the planet as far as we know; bigger by far than ever the largest Dinosaur. The longest Blue Whale ever measured was a female, 33.58 m or 110ft long. The heaviest weighed over 190 tonnes. We haven't actually got a set of weighing scales big enough so weights are estimated from the cut up remains.\n\nThe largest animal on land at the moment on this planet is a mammal; the bull African Elephant. The largest specimen recorded stood around 3.96 m or 13ft at the shoulder and weighed over 12 tonnes.
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"Largest" is usually based on the overall mass of the animal, not just the length. While anacondas can get considerably longer than crocodiles, they aren't nearly as massive.
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it depends on the number of body segments, centipedes have 1 pair of legs on each segment, so a centipede with 10 body segments has 20 legs. Millipedes have 2 pairs of legs on each segment.
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Centipedes are symbolic for Awareness says http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm303042.html\n\nAccording to Animal-Wise by Ted Andrews, they are symbolic of movement into new psychic connections and relationships, and protection against psychic deceptions.\n\nI'm afraid that's all I can find...
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An upside down centipede
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I'm pretty sure as the centipede grows and matures, it gets more legs as each little section grows...
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Some centipedes have hundred or more legs but no millipedes got a thousand.\n \nCentipedes (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.\n\nMillipedes (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.♥
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well, it definitely sounds like an arthropod, so the place to look would be a book or website with lots of pictures of different kinds of Arthropods - crustaceans, spiders, centipedes, insects, and more, they're all in the phylum Arthropoda.  Your arthropod sounds like it's in one of the lesser known groups.