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Super VLB -- Classification -- Kingdom Animalia -- Arthropods.
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This lesson will focus on the taxon- omy of animals, specifically the group of animals known as arthropods. Of the 1.25 million animals that have been iden- tified on Earth, more than a million of them are arthropods.
muscle, Arthropods: Arthropoda is the largest phylum of invertebrate animals and comprises the crustaceans, insects, arachnids (spiders and scorpions), and other classes. Some arthropods have soft-bodied young stages in which the principle of the hydrostatic skeleton is important. Most adult
Molting Animals Form Clade Ecdysozoa Arthropods have a rich fossil record, but their phylogenetic relationships remain unclear. Taxa proposed to be sister groups include Annelida, Onychophora, Tardigrada and others, but hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships have been conflicting.
We performed a cladistic analysis of 25 characters to determine how the chelicerates, crustaceans, and uniramids should be classified, possibly under 1 phylum, Arthropoda, or in 2 or more phyla.
Many arthropods have adopted the parasitic way of life. Depending on your definition of parasitism, something between 15 and 50% of insect species are either parasitic or have parasitic stages in their life cycle. Some groups of parasitic arthropods are more economically important than others.