Arthropod
Of invertebrate and Arthropoda.
Invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin.
This concept's ID is @1~8927
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.