Chilopoda
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Scolopendra cingulata
Translingual
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
- 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.
