Qu'est-ce (qui) est Myriapoda - définition

SUBPHYLUM OF ARTHROPODS

Myriapod; Myriapods; Miriapod; Progoneata; Dignatha; Trignatha; Edafopoda; Collifera; Atelopoda; Myriopod; Myriopoda

Myriapoda

·noun ·pl A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous similar segments, nearly all of which bear true jointed legs. They have one pair of antennae, three pairs of mouth organs, and numerous trachaae, similar to those of true insects. The larvae, when first hatched, often have but three pairs of legs. ·see Centiped, Galleyworm, Milliped.

myriapod

['m?r??p?d]

¦ noun Zoology a centipede, millipede, or other arthropod having an elongated body with numerous leg-bearing segments.

Origin

C19: from mod. L. Myriapoda (former class name), from Gk murias (see myriad) + pous, pod- 'foot'.

Myriopoda

·noun ·pl ·see Myriapoda.

Wikipédia

Myriapoda

Myriapods (from Ancient Greek μυρίος (muríos) 'ten thousand', and πούς (poús) 'foot') are the members of subphylum Myriapoda, containing arthropods such as millipedes and centipedes. The group contains about 13,000 species, all of them terrestrial.

The fossil record of myriapods reaches back into the late Silurian, although molecular evidence suggests a diversification in the Cambrian Period, and Cambrian fossils exist which resemble myriapods. The oldest unequivocal myriapod fossil is of the millipede Pneumodesmus newmani, from the late Silurian (428 million years ago). P. newmani is also important as the earliest known terrestrial animal. The phylogenetic classification of myriapods is still debated.

The scientific study of myriapods is myriapodology, and those who study myriapods are myriapodologists.

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