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• stray@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, they’re arachnids.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid

  Both insects and arachnids are arthropods.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re separate biological classes.
  So they’re about as far apart as you are from a reptile, bird or fish.

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨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.

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah I simplified it a bit cause I didn’t want to open a can of dinosaurs.

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      • stray@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t know if you saw Johandea’s reply to me, but it made me realize I was mistaken about what you meant.

        I love opening cans of dinosaurs. :D

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    • Johandea@feddit.nu ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not exactly. Humans, birds, and reptiles are all within the phylum chordata, while arachnids and insects are both within the phylum arthropoda.

      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.

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      • stray@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It took me a bit to understand what you mean, but I get it now! I was looking at it from the perspective of them being quite similar, but they are as different, aren’t they?

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fish, interestingly, aren’t a real thing in terms of formal classification

      This is misleading. Formal classification existed for a long time before phylogenetic classification became the standard.

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      • stray@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pluto used to be considered a planet, but I’m not going to tell people it is one today. Pisces as a class was abandoned due to the realization that we were mistaken about how similar/related they are to each other. Whales used to be included in pisces.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Arthropod?

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Arachnid

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Crab

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