Arthropoda
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”) + πούς (poús, “foot”) or ποδός (podós, “foot”); arthro- + -poda.
Proper noun edit
Arthropoda
- A taxonomic phylum within the superphylum Ecdysozoa – all arthropods, invertebrate animals having an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages.
Hypernyms edit
- (phylum): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum[1]
Hyponyms edit
- (phylum): Chelicerata (spiders etc.), Crustacea (crabs etc.), Hexapoda (insects etc.), Myriapoda (centipedes etc.) - extant subphyla; †Marrellomorpha (lace crabs);[1] †Trilobitomorpha (trilobites) - extinct subphyla
Coordinate terms edit
- (phylum): Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Onychophora, Priapula, Tardigrada[1]
References edit
Arthropoda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Arthropoda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Arthropoda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Arthropoda at World Register of Marine Species
- Arthropoda at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Arthropoda at Encyclopedia of Life
- Arthropoda at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Arthropoda at the Tree of Life Web Project
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248