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Scolopendra brooding and feeding

Image of Scolopendra dehaani Brandt 1840

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Description: English: "Brooding and feeding behaviours: A Scolopendra dehaani exhibiting simple coiling with cluster of embryonic stadia (photograph by Natdanai Likhitrakarn) B Scolopendra morsitans exhibiting double coiling with post-embryonic stadia C–D Scolopendra dehaani preying on snail-eating snake Pareas carinatus D Flexibility of trunk segments during predation" —From the paper "A taxonomic review of the centipede genus Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae) in mainland Southeast Asia, with description of a new species from Laos", https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/7950/list/2/. Date: 17 May 2016. Source: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/7950/list/2/. Author: Siriwut W, Edgecombe GD, Sutcharit C, Tongkerd P, Panha S.

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