Chilopoda

Translingual

Scolopendra cingulata

Etymology

From neuter plural of New Latin chilopodus, from Ancient Greek χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”) +‎ πούς (poús, “foot, leg”) for the forcipules of centipedes.

Proper noun

Chilopoda

1. A taxonomic class within the phylum Arthropoda – centipedes.

Hypernyms

• (class): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Myriapoda - subphylum

Hyponyms

• (class): Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha, Craterostigmomorpha, Scolopendromorpha, Geophilomorpha (orders)
• (class): Anamorpha, Epimorpha (clades)

References

• Chilopoda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chilopoda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Chilopoda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chilopoda at BugGuide
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
• “Chilopoda”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “Chilopoda”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.