Arthropods
Arthropods
are animals that have jointed legs. Three-fourths of all the different animal
types belong to this group. For each group below, determine the name of the
group and give examples.
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Class or Subphylum
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Characteristics
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Examples
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- round body
- segented body
- two pairs of legs per segment
- also known as myriapods
- "thousand feet"
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- flattened body
- segmented body
- one pair of legs per segment
- myriapods
- "hundred feet"
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- hard
- flexible exoskeleton
- gills
- branched attenae
- two body sections - abdomen,
cephalothorax
- mostly aquatic
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- two body sections - abdomen,
cephalothorax
- no antennae
- four pairs of legs
- chelicerae
- pedipalps
- spinnerets
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- three body sections
- one pair of antennae (unbranched)
- three pairs of legs
- mandibles
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