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- proper noun A taxonomic
class within thesubphylum Chelicerata — thespiders ,scorpions ,harvestmen ,mites andticks , having four pairs ofthoracic appendages .
Etymologies
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In the artillery department, its 'Arachnida' electronic targeting and combat management is already in service on the UK's light artillery guns and was exported in quantity to a Middle East customer, and Denel's world-class artillery ammunition is currently being evaluated in the NATO environment as well as in the United States.
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The Arctic has about 300 species of spiders (Arachnida), 700 species of mites (Acarina), 400 species of springtails (Collembola), 500 species of nematodes, 70 species of oligochaetes (of which most are Enchytraeidae), only a few mollusks, and an unknown number of protozoan species.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Like spiders, they are members of the class Arachnida, but they are actually solpugids.
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This text, for example, lists Tardigrada (water bears) as a class within the subphylum of Arachnida in the phylum Arthropoda - as opposed to the current classification of Tardigrades in their own phylum.
New art frankwu 2007
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The first troglobite scorpion from Israel and a new chactoid family Arachnida: Scorpiones.
A new species of underground scorpion from Israel AYDIN 2007
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Arachnida, are represented in the Coal, either by existing genera, or by forms differing from existing genera in quite minor peculiarities.
Essays 2007
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The Carboniferous Insecta and Arachnida are neither less specialized, nor more embryonic, than these that now live, nor are the Liassic Cirripedia and Macrura; while several of the Brachyura, which appear in the Chalk, belong to existing genera; and none exhibit either an intermediate, or an embryonic, character.
Essays 2007
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The first troglobite scorpion from Israel and a new chactoid family Arachnida: Scorpiones.
Archive 2007-08-01 AYDIN 2007
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Tree of Life has a list of references on the evolution and phylogeny of Arachnida, the class to which the pseudoscorpions belong.
The return of the pseudoscorpions AYDIN 2006
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Tree of Life has a list of references on the evolution and phylogeny of Arachnida, the class to which the pseudoscorpions belong.
Archive 2006-11-01 AYDIN 2006
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