Arthropoda

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Arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes

phylum Arthropoda

animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals

arthropod - invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

Chelicerata, superclass Chelicerata - spiders; scorpions; horseshoe crabs

superclass Myriapoda - used in some classifications to encompass the millipedes (Diplopoda) and centipedes (Chilopoda); formerly a large taxon including also the Pauropoda and Symphyla; the term Myriapoda now usually used synonymously with Diplopoda and limited to the millipedes

class Pauropoda, Pauropoda - an obscure class of minute arthropods with branched antennae and 8 to 10 pairs of legs

class Symphyla, Symphyla - small class of minute arthropods; unimportant except for the garden centipede

class Tardigrada, Tardigrada - in some classifications considered a separate phylum: microscopic arachnid-like invertebrates living in water or damp moss having 4 pairs of legs and instead of a mouth a pair of stylets or needlelike piercing organs connected with the pharynx

Chilopoda, class Chilopoda - arthropods having the trunk composed of numerous somites each bearing one pair of legs: centipedes

class Diplopoda, class Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Myriapoda - arthropods having the body composed of numerous double somites each with two pairs of legs: millipedes

Pentastomida, subphylum Pentastomida - tongue worms

class Crustacea, Crustacea - class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas

class Onychophora, Onychophora - enigmatic small elongated wormlike terrestrial invertebrates of damp dark habitats in warm regions; distinct from the phylum Annelida; resemble slugs with legs and are sometimes described as the missing link between arthropods and annelids

class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species

insect - small air-breathing arthropod

phylum - (biology) the major taxonomic group of animals and plants; contains classes

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Referring to organ, an ovotestis or syngonic is becoming an increasingly common feature in the reproductive anatomy on invertebrates (Davison, 2006), which occurs in a wide range of taxa, but mainly to Phylum Mollusca (ubiquitous), Arthropoda (rare) and in lesser degree to Echinodermata (almost absent, even more absent to echinoids) (Ghiselin, 1969; Hoagland, 1978, 1984; Allsop and West, 2004; Ford et al., 2008).

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