NOUN
- arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes
How To Use Myriapoda In A Sentence
- Hemocyanins have been studied thoroughly only in the Chelicerata and the malacostracan Crustacea, but they have been identified in all arthropod subphyla, including the Myriapoda and Hexapoda.
- Hemocyanin is the only respiratory protein available to the Chelicerata and the Myriapoda, while in the Crustacea, either hemocyanin or hemoglobin occurs.
- Centipedes or chilopods are part of a larger group of arthropods called the Myriapoda.
- Generations of morphologists have been unable to determine the branching order of Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea and Insecta.