Question about basic taxonomy

Solar Dart

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Ok this may sound stupid, but upon which taxonomic level is "myriopod/a" located?
One would think it is a class, yet all the information I could find lists Chilopoda and Diplopoda as classes.
I almost think that the sites I've been looking at are 'dumbing things down', and that Chilopoda and Diplopoda are actually sub-classes found within the Myriopoda class, but such 'dumbing down' seems pointless to me.
Anyway....does anyone here have any insights?
 

Wade

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Not stupid at all. The answer is not very clear to me, either. As far as I can gather by consulting a few books (which either don't mention the word at all or else just call it a "group") and making a phone call to an entomologist friend, "Myriopod" is not a currently recognized taxonomic level, but the name survives informally to mean centipedes and millipedes.

Wade
 

Professor T

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Originally posted by Solar Dart
Ok this may sound stupid, but upon which taxonomic level is "myriopod/a" located?
One would think it is a class, yet all the information I could find lists Chilopoda and Diplopoda as classes.
I almost think that the sites I've been looking at are 'dumbing things down', and that Chilopoda and Diplopoda are actually sub-classes found within the Myriopoda class, but such 'dumbing down' seems pointless to me.
Anyway....does anyone here have any insights?
Kingdom- Animalia (all animals)
Phylum- Arthropoda (animals w/ chitinous exoskleton and jointed appendages)
Subphylum- Uniramia (insects, millipedes, centipedes)
Superclass- Myriopoda (millipedes & centipedes)

Under the Superclass Myriopoda are two classes:
Class- Diplopoda (millipedes)
Class- Chilopoda (centipedes)

So I think the answer you were looking for is: Superclass
 
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