Arthropod Classes is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the classes of arthropods, insects, arachnids, crustaceans, myriapods and their relatives. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a class of arthropods. It excludes classes of other animal phyla. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Insecta (Wikipedia)
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Insects (from Latin insectum) are invertebrates of the class Insecta.
View the Source Wikipedia: Arachnid
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Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida () of the subphylum Chelicerata.
View the Source Malacostraca (Wikipedia)
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Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans after insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders.
View the Source Wikipedia: Millipede
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Millipedes (originating from the Latin mille, "thousand", and pes, "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derived from this feature.
View the Source Centipede (Wikipedia)
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Centipedes (from Neo-Latin centi- 'hundred' and Latin pes, pedis 'foot') are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda of the subphylum Myriapoda, an arthropod group which includes millipedes and other multi-legged animals.
View the Source Wikipedia: Ostracod
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Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp.
View the Source Wikipedia: Branchiopoda
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Branchiopoda (from Ancient Greek βράγχια (bránkhia), meaning "gill", and πούς (poús), meaning "foot") is a class of crustaceans.
View the Source Wikipedia: Symphyla
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Symphylans, also known as garden centipedes or pseudocentipedes, are soil-dwelling arthropods of the class Symphyla in the subphylum Myriapoda.
View the Source Wikipedia: Pauropoda
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Pauropoda is a class of small, pale, millipede-like arthropods in the subphylum Myriapoda.
View the Source Wikipedia: Merostomata
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Merostomata is a class of chelicerate arthropods that contains the extinct Eurypterida (sea scorpions) and the extant Xiphosura (horseshoe crabs).
View the Source Copepod, Wikipedia
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Copepods (; meaning 'oar-feet') are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.
View the Source Sea spider, Wikipedia
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Sea spiders are marine arthropods of the class Pycnogonida, hence they are also called pycnogonids (; named after Pycnogonum, the type genus; with the suffix -id).
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