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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Lembot_0006@programming.dev 16 hours agoAre they in some separate category?
mech@feddit.org 16 hours ago
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.
mech@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Yeah I simplified it a bit cause I didn’t want to open a can of dinosaurs.
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
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Arthropod?
bizarroland@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Arachnid
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Crab
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