Galapagos centipede
The Galapagos centipede is one of the biggest centipedes in the whole world. It can grow as long as a school ruler. It is a strong hunter that lives on the Galápagos Islands and in parts of South America.
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It can reach about 30 centimetres long.
It is the only giant Scolopendra centipede on the Galápagos Islands, where twelve other kinds of centipedes live.
It comes in two different colour forms.
Galápagos hawks, mockingbirds and rats hunt it.
Most asked questions about Galapagos centipede
?How big is the Galapagos centipede?
The biggest ones are about 30 centimetres long, one of the largest centipedes on Earth.
?What does the Galapagos centipede eat?
Crickets, baby rodents and even small snakes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scolopendra galapagoensis
- Named by
- Bollman, 1889
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Scolopendridae
- Classification
- Chilopoda > Scolopendromorpha > Scolopendridae
- Lives on
- South America, North America
- Also known as
- Galápagos centipede, Darwin's goliath centipede
Where the facts come from
- Scolopendra galapagoensis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Juan Carlos Caicedo Hernández. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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