Centipedes have poison claws on their anterior segments, although few are of any danger to man.
Centipedes Centipedes have an elongated, segmented body with each segment bearing a pair of legs. The name inaccurately implies one hundred legs when, in fact, the number of legs varies between 20 and more than 100. They range in length from 1 to 9 inches. This page was last updated March 26, 1999.