Myriapoda
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Myriapods 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 head of Scutigera coleoptrata, showing antennae, compound eyes and mouthparts
Scolopendra cingulata, a centipede
Tachypodoiulus niger, a millipede
A species of Scutigerella, a genus of symphylan
Pauropoda
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Pauropoda is a class of small, pale, millipede-like arthropods in the subphylum Myriapoda. More than 900 species in twelve families are found worldwide, living in soil and leaf mold. Pauropods look li
Myriapoda
…myriapods are myriapodologists. Myriapods have a single pair of antennae and, in most cases, simple eyes. Exceptions are the two classes of symphylans and pauropods, the millipede order Polydesmida and the centipede order Geophilomorpha, which are all eyeless. The house centipedes (Scutigera) on the other hand…
Eurypauropodid crop
Ventral and dorsal views of Pauropus amicus from New South Wales, Australia.
Two pauropods of the genus Eurypauropus.
Pauropoda