Arthropoda Definition

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A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Protostomia — the arthropods, invertebrate animals having an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages..

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Origin of Arthropoda

  • From Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (arthron, “joint”) + πούς (pous, “foot”) or ποδός (podos, “foot”).

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Arthropoda Sentence Examples

  • The cerebral ganglia constitute an archicerebrum for the most part, there being no evidence that, as in the Arthropoda, a movement forward of post-oral ganglia has taken place.

  • Arthropoda are very abundant and as yet little known.

  • The body consists of a number of exactly similar or closely similar segments, which are never fused and metamorphosed, as in the Arthropoda, to form specialized regions of the body.

  • Where locomotive appendages (the parapodia of the Polychaeta) exist, they are never jointed, as always in the Arthropoda; nor are they modified anteriorly to form jaws, as in that group.

  • These muscles are not striated, as they are in the Arthropoda.

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