DETAILS
- Discipline
NH: ZOOLOGY: INVERTEBRATES: MYRIAPODS (CENTIPEDES, MILLIPEDES)
- Scientific Name
Strigamia maritima
- Common Name
Coastal centipede
- Date Collected
5 June 1987
- Place Collected
Scotland, Cumbrae, nr. Millport, (place collected)
- Sex
male
- Age
adult
- Form
wet preserved
- Description
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The coastal centipede (Strigamia maritima) is found, as the common name suggests, near the coast in the west of Scotland and the south west of Britain. It is a long thin centipede with a single pair of legs on each body segment.
Centipedes are predators and hunt down small invertebrates. They are found in leaf litter and under rocks and rotting logs, some species live in the soil and the coastal centipede is often found in shingle and rocky beaches.
These specimens were collected from the coast near Millport on the island of Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde. They are preserved in spirit. - ID Number
Z.2008.50.1
- Location
In storage
- Terms