MILLIPEDE

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MILLIPEDE , the popular name of the best known members of a

group

GROUP

of the

Arthropoda

ARTHROPODA

, scientifically known as Diplopoda, and formerly united with the Chilopoda (see

CENTIPEDE

CENTIPEDE

), the Pauropoda and the Symphyla as an order of the class Myriapoda. This

classification

CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

, however, has of

late

LATE

years been abandoned on

account

of the recognition of closer affinity between the Chilopoda (centipedes) and the Hexapoda (

insects

INSECTS

) than between the Chilopoda and Diplopoda. By

modern

MODERN

writers the above-mentioned groups of " tracheate "

Arthropoda

ARTHROPODA

are either regarded as independent classes of this phylum Arthropoda, or associated in two superclasses, the Opisthogonea or Opisthogoneata for the Chilopoda and Hexapoda; and the Prosogonea or Prosogoneata for the Diplopoda, Pauropoda and Symphyla. The structural

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

upon which these superclasses are based is the position of the generative apertures which open anteriorly in the Prosogonea and posteriorly in the Opisthogonea. Although the Pauropoda and Symphyla are not, strictly speaking, Diplopoda, these three groups of prosogoneate arthropods are here for convenience considered together.

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