Pauropoda

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There are 4 families:

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Afrauropodidae

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Brachypauropodidae

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Millotauropodidae

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Pauropodidae

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Pauropods are small, pale, centipede-like arthropods. They form the order Pauropodina, belonging to the monotypic class Pauropoda. About 500 species are found worldwide, living in soil.

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The first instar has three pairs of legs, but that number increases with each molt so that adult species may have 9 to 11 pairs of legs. They have neither eyes, trachea nor hearts. They have soft, cylindrical bodies and paired antennae.

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Centipede: For other articles with the word centipede, go to Centipede (disambiguation)....

Arthropods: redirect Arthropod...

Order: Order (from Latin ordo "row, rank, series, arrangement", Old French ordre from the Latin accusative, ordinem, attested in English from the 1220s). The word conveys a notion of "a system of parts subject to certain uniform, established ranks or proportions", an idea very central to scholastic thoug...