Myriapoda

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Noun1.Myriapoda - arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedesMyriapoda - arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes
Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
millepede, milliped, millipede - any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs
class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
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The proportion of animal food in the form of arthropods (Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Myriapoda, Arachnidae), snails and vertebrates (mainly birds, their eggs and chicks) is generally low and, according to most researchers, limited to the spring and early summer, when there is a shortage of appropriate plant food (Ognev 1947, Kahmann 1965, Holisova 1968, Gigirey & Rey 1999, Koppmann-Rumpf et al.
Adis (Ed.), Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda: Identification keys, to all classes, orders, families, some genera, and lists of known terrestrial species (p.
Some debate exists, however, as to whether the relatively large and varied ommatidial units of Xiphosura and Myriapoda are an ancestral trait, from which the more stringently organized insect eyes evolved (Harzsch et al., 2005), or whether they are derived from an ancestor with more precisely regulated ommatidial cell identity (Paulus, 2000), as is known to be the insect-crustacean ancestral state.
It is mainly explained by arachnids (ara) (r2 = 0,479 **), isoptera (iso) (r2 = 0,346 **) and myriapoda (myr) (r2 = 0,307 **).
Bedano J, Cantu M, Doucet M (2006) Soil springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola), Symphylans and Pauropods (Arthropoda: Myriapoda) under differents management systems in agroecosystems of the subhumid Pampa (Argentina).
A century later--a total evidence re-evaluation of the phylogeny of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda : Chilopoda).
Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda: Identification keys to all classes, orders, families, some genera, and lists of known terrestrial species.
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