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- proper noun A taxonomic
subphylum within thephylum Arthropoda — thecentipedes ,millipedes and similar creatures.
Etymologies
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Linné had divided all the animals below the vertebrates into two classes only, the Insecta and Vermes, the insects comprising the present classes of insects, Myriapoda, Arachnida, and Crustacea; the Vermes embracing all the other invertebrate animals, from the molluscs to the monads.
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Myriapoda have been found abundantly in the Carboniferous and Devonian formations; but all are of extinct orders, exhibiting a more generalised structure than living forms.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Myriapoda -- are, as might be expected, much more ancient.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The order of Myriapoda is placed by systematists at the bottom of the class of insects; the sucking
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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The spiders, ticks and scorpions of the subgroup Chelicerata are shown to have split from the line leading to insects and crustaceans even before the millipedes and centipedes of the subphylum Myriapoda.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Most recent molecular studies had grouped these arachnids in Chelicerata together with millipedes and centipedes of the Myriapoda.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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The spiders, ticks and scorpions of the subgroup Chelicerata are shown to have split from the line leading to insects and crustaceans even before the millipedes and centipedes of the subphylum Myriapoda.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Most recent molecular studies had grouped these arachnids in Chelicerata together with millipedes and centipedes of the Myriapoda.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Millipedes (Order Myriapoda) Interesting to watch but can spend long periods in an inactive coil, which is pretty boring for children.
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11 (Myriapoda plus Pancrustacea) over the molecule-based Paradoxopoda (Myriapoda plus Chelicerata) 12.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Jerome C. Regier 2010
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