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Animal Kingdom Arthropod Phylum: Centipedes: The red centipede Like most centipedes this is a carnivore. The first pair of legs have become claws which inject poison into their prey. The red centipede moves quickly through the leaf litter in to top layer of the soil. It cannot burrow very well into the soil. It is a large European centipede which may grow to 25 mm but in tropical America there is a species which can grow to 260 mm.
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