Even when they pretend to have 6?
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mech@feddit.org 23 hours agoNo. Insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8.
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mech@feddit.org 23 hours agoNo. Insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8.
Even when they pretend to have 6?
Or when 2 legs fall off?
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 23 hours ago
Are they in some separate category?
stray@pawb.social 23 hours ago
Yes, they’re arachnids.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid
Both insects and arachnids are arthropods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod
mech@feddit.org 23 hours ago
They’re separate biological classes.
So they’re about as far apart as you are from a reptile, bird or fish.
stray@pawb.social 23 hours ago
Not exactly. Humans, birds, and reptiles are all within the phylum chordata, while arachnids and insects are both within the phylum arthropoda.
Fish, interestingly, aren’t a real thing in terms of formal classification. The term is similar to bug in that we apply it to whichever creatures we feel fit the description.
mech@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Yeah I simplified it a bit cause I didn’t want to open a can of dinosaurs.
Johandea@feddit.nu 21 hours ago
But all fish, no matter which classification you use, are also part of the phylum chordata, just like reptiles, birds and mammals. @mech s statement still holds true.
FishFace@piefed.social 21 hours ago
This is misleading. Formal classification existed for a long time before phylogenetic classification became the standard.
tomiant@piefed.social 15 hours ago
No, because spiders are super many, tiny, and scary, exactly like insects.
Lembot_0006 is orders of magnitudes larger than most reptiles, and is one of a kind.
I expect to lose this argument, but mom didn’t raise no quitter.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Crab
bizarroland@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Arachnid
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Arthropod?