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In certain arthropod
Arthropod

Arthropods are animals belonging to the Scientific classification Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others....
s, the maxillae are paired mouthparts
Mouthparts

The mouthparts of arthropods have evolution into a number of forms, each adaptation to a different style or mode of feeding. Most mouthparts represent modified, paired appendages, which in ancestral forms would have appeared more like legs than mouthparts....
 located behind the mandibles
Mandible (arthropod)

In arthropods, the mandible is either of a pair of arthropod mouthparts used for biting, cutting and holding food. Mandibles are often simply referred to as jaws....
. While the mandibles are used for biting or cutting food, the maxillae are used for swallowing. Maxillae are found in all arthropods except for Chelicerata
Chelicerata

The subphylum Chelicerata constitutes one of the major subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda, and includes horseshoe crabs, scorpions, spiders and mites....
 and the extinct trilobite
Trilobite

Trilobites are extinction marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. They appeared in the Early Cambrian period and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during the Late Devonian extinction, all trilobite orders, with the sole exception of Proetida, died out....
s, i. e. in myriapods
Myriapoda

Myriapoda is a subphylum of arthropods containing millipedes, centipedes, and others. The group contains 13,000 species, all of which are terrestrial animal ....
, crustacean
Crustacean

Crustaceans are a large group of arthropods, comprising almost 52,000 described species , and are usually treated as a subphylum . They include various familiar animals, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles....
s and insect
Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s. The maxillae often bear palps (sensory feelers). Crustaceans and centipede
Centipede

For information about the old arcade game, see Centipede .Centipedes are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda and the Subphylum Myriapoda....
s typically have two pairs of maxillae; in millipede
Millipede

Millipedes are arthropods that have two pairs of arthropod leg per segment . Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one....
s and insects the second pair is often fused together to form a labium (lower lip).






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In certain arthropod
Arthropod

Arthropods are animals belonging to the Scientific classification Arthropoda , and include the insects, arachnids, crustaceans, and others....
s, the maxillae are paired mouthparts
Mouthparts

The mouthparts of arthropods have evolution into a number of forms, each adaptation to a different style or mode of feeding. Most mouthparts represent modified, paired appendages, which in ancestral forms would have appeared more like legs than mouthparts....
 located behind the mandibles
Mandible (arthropod)

In arthropods, the mandible is either of a pair of arthropod mouthparts used for biting, cutting and holding food. Mandibles are often simply referred to as jaws....
. While the mandibles are used for biting or cutting food, the maxillae are used for swallowing. Maxillae are found in all arthropods except for Chelicerata
Chelicerata

The subphylum Chelicerata constitutes one of the major subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda, and includes horseshoe crabs, scorpions, spiders and mites....
 and the extinct trilobite
Trilobite

Trilobites are extinction marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita. They appeared in the Early Cambrian period and flourished throughout the lower Paleozoic era before beginning a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during the Late Devonian extinction, all trilobite orders, with the sole exception of Proetida, died out....
s, i. e. in myriapods
Myriapoda

Myriapoda is a subphylum of arthropods containing millipedes, centipedes, and others. The group contains 13,000 species, all of which are terrestrial animal ....
, crustacean
Crustacean

Crustaceans are a large group of arthropods, comprising almost 52,000 described species , and are usually treated as a subphylum . They include various familiar animals, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles....
s and insect
Insect

Insects are the biggest class of arthropods and the only ones with wings. They are the most diverse group of animals on the planet. They are most diverse at the equator and their diversity declines toward the poles....
s. The maxillae often bear palps (sensory feelers). Crustaceans and centipede
Centipede

For information about the old arcade game, see Centipede .Centipedes are arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda and the Subphylum Myriapoda....
s typically have two pairs of maxillae; in millipede
Millipede

Millipedes are arthropods that have two pairs of arthropod leg per segment . Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one....
s and insects the second pair is often fused together to form a labium (lower lip). In insects, maxillae may also be modified into a sucking proboscis
Proboscis

In general, a proboscis is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate..The correct Greek plural is proboscides, but in English it is more common to simply add -es, forming proboscises....
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