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The arthropod body plan consists of segments, each with a pair of appendages. Arthropods are bilaterally symmetrical and their body possesses an external skeleton . In order to keep growing, they must go through stages of moulting , a process by which they shed their exoskeleton to reveal a new one.
Arthropod eyes Head of a wasp with three ocelli (center), and compound eyes at the left and right. Most arthropods have sophisticated visual systems that include one or more usually both of compound eyes and pigment-cup ocelli ("little eyes"). In most cases, ocelli are only capable of detecting the direction from which light is coming, using ...
In biology, taxonomic rank (which some authors prefer to call nomenclatural rank [1] because ranking is part of nomenclature rather than taxonomy proper, according to some definitions of these terms) is the relative or absolute level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in a hierarchy that reflects evolutionary
Pages in category "Template-Class Arthropods pages" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 10,784 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Based on the isolated fossil remains of a large chelicera (claw) from the Klerf Formation of Germany, J. rhenaniae has been estimated to have reached a size of around 2.3–2.6 metres (7.5–8.5 ft), making it the largest arthropod ever discovered, surpassing other large arthropods such as fellow eurypterids Acutiramus and Pterygotus; the ...
Arthropods and humans (8 C, 3 P) I. Arthropod images (1 C) Individual arthropods (2 C, 4 P) L. Lists of arthropods (5 C, 18 P) M. Arthropod morphology (1 C, 9 P) P.
Category: Arthropods by classification. ... Myriapods (13 C, 3 P) T. Thylacocephala (9 P) This page was last edited on 6 November 2023, at 05:02 ...
Prehistoric arthropod taxonomy (5 C) Pages in category "Arthropod taxonomy" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.