Chilopoda (Noun)
Meaning
Arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Chilopoda, a subphylum of arthropods, are elongated, flattened, and somewhat worm-like in appearance.
- The Chilopoda exhibit a unique body plan, characterized by many segments, each bearing a pair of legs.
- The general layout of the Chilopoda body plan has changed little since the segmenting began over 400 million years ago.
- In the Chilopoda, head appendages are modified to form maxipeds, the first pair of which are used to capture and manipulate prey.
- The taxonomic classification of Chilopoda is still not completely resolved and is the subject of ongoing research and some debate among myriapodologists.