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title: "Pacific Giant Centipede"
description: "Scolopendra subspinipes — Andere dieren. Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/pacific-giant-centipede
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Giant Centipede

> Scolopendra subspinipes — Andere dieren. Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia.

- Scientific name: *Scolopendra subspinipes*
- Category: `other` (Andere dieren)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 2659
- Wikidata: [Q589378](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q589378)
- iNaturalist taxon: [53769](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/53769)

## Names

- en: Pacific Giant Centipede
- es: Ciempiés gigante del Pacífico
- fr: Scolopendre du Vietnam
- pt: Scolopendrida subspinipes

## Countries with the most observations

US (1050), SG (118), ID (111), MY (56), GP (54), PF (54), BM (36), JM (36), SC (35), ST (32), PR (28), NC (26)

## Summary

Scolopendra subspinipes is a species of very large centipede found throughout southeastern Asia. One of the most widespread and common species in the genus Scolopendra, it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, and possibly parts of the southern United States, but how much of this range is natural and how much due to human introduction is unclear. With a wide geographic range and numerous color variations, the species is known…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_subspinipes

## Photo

![Pacific Giant Centipede](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-giant-centipede/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben Sims · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258311714

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-giant-centipede?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).