Question: Millipedes fall under the following class of Arthropoda:
Options:
Insecta
Myriapoda
Crustacea
Arachnida
📌 Other Options Explanations:
-Insecta: This class includes insects, which have three body segments and three pairs of legs
-Crustacea: This class includes crabs, lobsters, and shrimp, which have a hard exoskeleton and two pairs of antennae.
-Arachnida: This class includes spiders, scorpions, and mites, which have two body segments and four pairs of legs.
Additional information-
• Centipede:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Chilopoda [Hundred-legged with body divisible into head and trunk.]
• Millipede:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Diplopoda [Thousand-legged with body divisible into a head, thorax, and abdomen.]
• Spider:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Arachnida [Cephalothorax with six pairs of appendages.]
• Scorpion:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Arachnida [Cephalothorax with six pairs of appendages.]​
•  ​​​House fly:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Insecta [Head bears a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae, and mouth parts adapted for chewing, biting, piercing sucking, etc.]
• Butterfly:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Insecta [Head bears a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae, and mouth parts adapted for chewing, biting, piercing, sucking, etc.]
• Tsetse fly:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Insecta [Head bears a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae and mouth parts adapted for chewing, biting, piercing, sucking, etc.]
• Silverfish:
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Insecta [Head bears a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae, and mouth parts adapted for chewing, biting, piercing, sucking, etc.]
​​Spiny anteater:​
-​PHYLUM – Chordata [Presence of dorsal tubular nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits, and notochord at some stage of development.]
-SUB-PHYLUM – Vertebrata [ Presence of vertebral column]
-CLASS – Mammalia [Presence of mammary gland]
• Sea urchin:
-​PHYLUM – Echinodermata [Marine animal showing usually pentamerous radial symmetry with podia or tube feet projecting out of the body.]
-CLASS – Echinoidea [Body is spherical, disc-like, oval, or heart-shaped with an endoskeleton made up of closely fitted calcareous plates with movable spines.]
​Sea cucumber:​
-​PHYLUM – Echinodermata [Marine animal showing usually pentamerous radial symmetry with podia or tube feet projecting out of the body.]
-​CLASS – Holothuroidea [Endoskeleton is reduced to microscopic spicules or plates that are embedded in the body wall. Mouth surrounded by a set of tentacles.]
​​Flying fish:​
-​PHYLUM – Chordata [Presence of dorsal tubular nerve cord, pharyngeal gill slits, and notochord at some stage of development.]
-SUB-PHYLUM – Vertebrata [ Presence of vertebral column]
-SUPER CLASS – Pisces [Aquatic and bears fins]
-CLASS – Osteichthyes [Marine or freshwater fish with bony exoskeleton.
Cuttlefish:​
-​PHYLUM – Mollusca [Body is soft, unsegmented and bilaterally symmetrical. The body consists of a head, foot, mantle, and visceral mass.]
-CLASS – Cephalopoda [Shell embedded in the mantle. The foot altered into a series of tentacles encircling the mouth.]
​​​Silverfish:​
-PHYLUM – Arthropoda [Thick chitinous cuticle as an exoskeleton and jointed appendages.]
-CLASS – Insecta [Head bears a pair of compound eyes, a pair of antennae and mouth parts adapted for chewing, biting, piercing, sucking,etc.