Contains

• insect

  Small air-breathing arthropod.

• crustacean

  Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskelet...

• arachnid

  Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs.

• Merostomata

  Used in some classifications; includes the orders Xiphosura and Eurypterida.

• carapace

  Hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles.

• onychophoran

  Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests...

• tardigrade

  An arthropod of the division Tardigrada.

• centipede

  Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each...

• millipede

  Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to...

• sea spider

  Any of various small spiderlike marine arthropods having small thin bodies and long slender...

• horseshoe crab

  Large marine arthropod of the Atlantic coast of North America having a domed carapace...

• Asian horseshoe crab

  Horseshoe crab of the coast of eastern Asia.

• eurypterid

  Large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs.

• tongue worm

  Wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth; parasitic in...

• sclerite

  Hard plate or element of the exoskeleton of some arthropods.

• thorax

  The middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen.

• apodeme

  Ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and...

• trilobite

  An extinct arthropod that was abundant in Paleozoic times; had an exoskeleton divided...

• arthromere

  Any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an arthropod.

• myriapod

  General term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar...

• garden centipede

  Minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse...

• instar

  An insect or other arthropod between molts.