[1][2] Adult specimens are typically 60-65 mm long, yellowish-orange in colour and ca.

[4] A specimen from Madagascar with even fewer legs (53 pairs, sex not reported)[5] features the minimum number recorded in the family Orydae.

[6] It is a littoral myriapod that can be found throughout sublittoral zones of Indian and East Pacific countries,[7] including Taiwan and Japan, in particular the Okinawan, Yaeyama and Miyama islands, where it is listed as a threatened local population.

[3] Upon direct chemical, thermal and physical stimulation, the centipede secretes a clear, but bioluminescent slime from pores in its sternal defense glands, supposedly a form of aposematism.

[9] While several genera display this form of bioluminescence, utilising the typical oxygen-dependent luciferin-luciferase reaction, this example is noteworthy due to the low, narrow pH range of the reaction, and the relatively long period of emission.