ibacus

Updated: June 1, 2025

These sea centipedes, as the English call them in Tahiti, are a species of ibacus, and are from six to twelve inches long, and two wide. They have legs or feelers all along their sides, like a pocket comb, a hideous head, and tail, and a generally repulsive appearance.

Frederick O'Brien - Mystic Isles of the South Seas.