yeah centipedes don't have near as many legs as millipedes--centipedes are carnivores while millipedes eat plants/are herbivores. (I think someone else mentioned all this already though)..so sorry if this is all repetitous..
Hmm. I'm failry sure that's a centipede. See, my roomie once had an African Milipede, and she had to be one of the cutest things ever, despite her initial creepy buggyness. She looked similar to this, but her carapace segments were smoother and darker, her feeler antennae were smaller, and she has this adorable little piggy-nose face. Smaller, darker legs, too. While milipedes are docile herbivores, I think centipedes are actually carnivores. Could always look up the differences on Wikipedia.com. Hope this sheds some light on things ^_^
That is fine and dandy but it is not the correct criteria to differentiate between centipedes and millipedes. Centipedes have the first pair of legs modified into poison fangs/claws, and the body segments do not fuse in a pairwise fashion during embryogenesis. While Millipedes do not have the first pair of legs modified into poison claws, and during embryogenesis most of the body segments fuse pairwise resulting in each 'segment' in a postembryonic critter bearing two pairs of legs. You can slightly see the pairwise grouped legs on this specimen. Thus I would put my money on it been a Millipede.