A proposed or historical taxonomic group name for organisms with spider-like characteristics, used in older classification systems.
Derived from 'aranea' plus '-formia,' a variant Latin ending for grouping organisms. This represents an archaic taxonomic term from before modern phylogenetics standardized zoological classification.
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