An arachnid is, not surprisingly, a member of the class Arachnida, which consists of many sorts of creatures that are quite different from each other, including, among others, spiders, scorpions, harvestmen (daddy long legs), mites, and ticks.
The segments of an arachnid’s body are grouped as two regions, the cephalothorax, a combination of head (cephalon) and thorax, and an abdomen that bears no appendages.
The cephalothorax has four pairs of walking legs plus one more pair of legs, called the pedipalps, that are near the mouth and have been greatly modified to serve as antennae, or feelers.
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