#4960 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Mediterranean Banded Centipede
🇳🇱 Scolopender ·Scolopendra cingulata
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Scolopendra cingulata , also known as Megarian banded centipede , and the Mediterranean banded centipede , is a species of centipede, and "the most common scolopendromorph species in the Mediterranean area".
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 1 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 9,347 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1829 (197 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mediterranean Banded Centipede
- Nederlands
- Scolopender
- scientific name
- Scolopendra cingulata
- class
- Chilopoda
- order
- Scolopendromorpha
- family
- Scolopendridae
- sightings in NL
- 1
- sightings in Europe
- 7,298
- sightings worldwide
- 9,347
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1829 by Pierre André Latreille
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 128145, Wikidata Q976489, GBIF 5742390, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.