#context I saw a Youtube short about Solifugids and the comments did dissapoint.

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I'm sure I have no reason to be bothered by this apart from petty nerd rage, because to be honest I've never met anyone IRL who's as annoying about taxonomy as I am, but I find it very weird how Arachnida has probably some of the most instantly recognizable and morphologically different orders in the entire kingdom, and they STILL get constantly mixed up with each other by people both online and offline.

Like if animals ain't your jam I get why at first you'd put any arachnid you see into the "looks-like-scorpion-must-be-scorpion" or "looks-like-spider-must-be-spider" categories. Everyone does that at some point. But sometimes one or a few people online will try to "correct" other people on their inaccurate naming and add a "fun fact" about arachnid taxonomy to put more color on their comment and like 99% of the time the whole thread turns into an absolutely incomprehensible mess where everyone is wrong and you weep because all of this could've been avoided with a 10-second Wikipedia check and LOOKING AT THE ANIMAL IN QUESTION.