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Orya (centipede)

genus of myriapods

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ4355504 ↗
Source-derived summary

Orya is a genus of centipedes belonging to the family Oryidae. Centipedes in this genus feature claws on the second maxillae without marginal filaments and trunk segments with an unusual pattern of pleurites. These centipedes range from 5 cm to 22 cm in length, have about 81 to 125 pairs of legs, and are found in northwest Africa and the Iberian Peninsula.

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“Orya (centipede)” enters the record as genus of myriapods. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Orya, centipede and genus can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Orya, centipede and genus.
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“Orya (centipede)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Orya, centipede and genus provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4355504. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Orya (centipede)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.