arthropods

1. A phylum , or major division of the animal kingdom . Arthropods are animals with jointed legs and segmented bodies, such as insects, spiders, centipedes, and crustaceans . There are more species of arthropods than of any other animal phylum.

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The land mollusks and the great order of insects and other land arthropods only to a minor extent dwell in the open light.

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The masticatory organs of Arthropods were jaws disjointed at their symphysis; antennæ, nostrils turned outside in.

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So, too, the brain of Arthropods or of Mollusca is not strictly comparable with the brain of Vertebrates.

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So we see that the Arthropods, unlike the worms and the Chordata, have obliterated all record of their poor relations.

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Limulus, like other water-dwelling arthropods, breathes by means of gills attached to its appendages.

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