Phylum Arthropoda: Animals With Coelom Which Is Reduce and Modified
Phylum Arthropoda: Animals With Coelom Which Is Reduce and Modified
Phylum Arthropoda: Animals With Coelom Which Is Reduce and Modified
1. Sub-phylum: Trilobitomorpha:
Marine, all extinct, lived from Cambrian to Carboniferous periods.
Body is divided into three longitudinal lobes, Head, Thorax and Abdomen present.
One pair of antennae and biramous appendages.
2. Sub-phylum: Chelicerata:
Body usually divided into prosoma (cephalothorax) and opisthosoma (abdomen).
The prosoma is a sensory, feeding and locomotor tagma. Paired appendages
attached to the prosoma. The first pair of appendages are Chelicerae. The second
pair of appendages are Pedipalps.
Posterior to the prosoma is the opisthosoma, which contain digestive, reproductive,
excretory and respiratory organ.
a) Class: Merostomata:
Marine, with book gills on opisthosoma.
Two sub-classes: a) Eurpterida: group of extinct arthropods called giant water
scorpion. b) Xiphosura: the horseshoe crabs.
Eg: Limulus (King crab)
b) Class: Arachnida:
Mostly terrestrial, with book lungs, trachea or both.
Usually four pairs of walking legs in adult.
Eg: Spider, Scorpion, Ticks, Mites, Harvestmen.
c) Class: Pycnogonida:
Reduce abdomen, no special respiratory or excretory structure.
Four to six pairs of walking legs.
Eg: Sea spider
3. Sub-phylum: Crustacea:
Most aquatic, head with two pairs of antennae.
One pair of mandibles and two pairs of maxillae.
Biramous appendages.
a) Class: Remipedia:
Cave-dwelling crustaceans from the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Australia.
Body with approximately 30 segments that bear uniform.
Biramous appendages.
c) Class: Branchiopoda:
Flattened, leaf like appendages used in respiration, filter feeding, locomotion.
Found mostly in fresh water.
Eg: Fairy shrimp, Brine shrimp, Clam shrimp, Water fleas.
d) Class: Malacostraca:
Appendages possibly modification for crawling, feeding, swimming.
Eg: Lobsters, Cray fish, Crabs, Shrimps, Isopods (terrestrial), Prawn,
e) Class: Maxillopoda:
Five head, six thoracic and four abdominal somites plus a telson.
Thoracic segments variously fused with the head, abdominal segments lack
typical appendages and abdomen often reduce.
Eg: Barnacles, Copepods.
4. Sub-phylum: Myriapoda:
Body is divided into Head and Trunk.
Four pairs of head appendages.
Uniramous appendages.
a) Class: Diplopoda:
Two pairs of legs per apparent segment, body usually round section.
Eg: Millipedes.
b) Class: Chliopoda:
One pair of legs per segment, body oval in cross section.
Eg: Millipedes.
5. Sub-phylum: Hexapoda:
Body divided into Head, Thorax and Abdomen.
Five pairs of head appendages.
Three pairs of uniramous appendages on the thorax.
Eg: Insects and their relatives.