Cormocephalus aurantiipes

Orange-legged Centipede at Crooked Corner, NSW

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Identification history

	Cormocephalus aurantiipes	8 Jan 2022	SimoneC
	Unverified	8 Jan 2022	trevorpreston

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Some of biggest centipedes I've seen, 3 under one rock, one would've been about 12cm

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SimoneC wrote:

8 Jan 2022

The Cormocephalus genus includes some very big centipedes here in Australia, some on an island near Norfolk Island live on seabird chicks. They can be good mothers though and one of your photos is a great shot of a mother protecting her young

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Location information

Coordinates 149.269181 -34.194296
Altitude 778.0m
Maps Burwood Creek Nature Reserve
Places Crooked Corner, NSW

Sighting information

3 Abundance
8 Jan 2022 10:35 AM Recorded on
trevorpreston Recorded by
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Other Arthropods Centipedes (Chilopoda) trevorpreston Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

Additional information

50mm or larger Animal size

Species information

Cormocephalus aurantiipes Scientific name
Orange-legged Centipede Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 964.1m Recorded at altitude
188 images trained Machine learning
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