Tripoblastic - Protosomes - Ecdysozoa - Arthropoda Flashcards
‘Arthropoda’
Jointed feet
What percentage of all animal species are arthropods?
83%
Most animal species are what insect
Beetle
Invertebrates have
Bilateralt symmetry; hard exoskeleton; segmented body; jointed
Major component of hard exoskeleton?
Chitin
Consequences of wearing suit of armou
Need a way to deliver O2 across skeleton (gills or tracheae)
Limit to body size
Need to moult to grow
What is ecdysis?
Shedding old exoskeleton (hence the name ecdysozoan
What are the four sub phyla or arthropoda?
Crustacea, Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Hexapoda
One of the earliest groups to appear?
Trilobites
‘Trilobites’
3 lobes
‘Crustacea’
Crusted
What does crustacean include?
Lobster, crab, prawn, woodlpous, barancle
What are crustacean bodies split into?
Cephalothorax and abdomen
Do larval forms of crustacean look like adults?
No. Often planktonic
Classes of crustacean?
Malocostraca, branchiopoda and maxillopoda
(Crustacean class) Malocostraca includes
prawns, crabs etc
(Crustacean class) Malocostraca have how many body segments?
20, divided into head, thorax and abdomen
(Crustacean class) Branciopoda?
Gill feet