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myriapod

NOUN
  1. general term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes

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  • More problematic are the relationships of the four major groups, hexapods (including insects), crustaceans, myriapods (including centipedes and millipedes), and chelicerates (including spiders).
  • Myriapod animals were probably one of the invertebrate animal groups that first colonized the terrestrial ecosystem during Early Paleozoic.
  • In his first article he mistakes a species of the myriapod genus Glomeris for the isopod genus Armadillo. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
  • Hemocyanins have been studied thoroughly only in the Chelicerata and the malacostracan Crustacea, but they have been identified in all arthropod subphyla, including the Myriapoda and Hexapoda.
  • In contrast, myriapods and chelicerates mostly lack compound eyes and the ommatidia of the few groups that have compound eyes are very different from insect/crustacean ommatidia.
  • Living among these early land plants were a diverse selection of arthropods, including spiders, mites, myriapods and collembolids.
  • Hemocyanin is the only respiratory protein available to the Chelicerata and the Myriapoda, while in the Crustacea, either hemocyanin or hemoglobin occurs.
  • Centipedes or chilopods are part of a larger group of arthropods called the Myriapoda.
  • The great bulk of his insect diet consists of beetles, grasshoppers, and caterpillars, with a few bugs, wasps, and flies, and an occasional spider and myriapod. Our Bird Comrades
  • This implies that water-to-land transition occurred at least three times (hexapods, myriapods, arachnids) during the evolution of the Arthropoda.
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