Chelicerata
Appearance
Chelicerata | |
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A collection o modren an extinct chelicerates. Clockwise frae tap left: a sea speeder, Pentecopterus (an extinct eurypterid), a spiny orb-weaver an an Atlantic horseshae crab. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Clade: | Arachnomorpha |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata Heymons, 1901 |
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The subphylum (or phylum[1]) Chelicerata (/kəˌlɪsəˈreɪtə/ or /kəˌlɪsəˈrɑːtə/; New Laitin, frae French chélicère, frae chél "claw, chela" an -cère frae the Greek keras, meanin "horn") constitutes ane o the major subdivisions o the phylum (or superphylum[1]) Arthropoda, an includes horseshae crabs, scorpions, speeders, mites, harvestmen, ticks, an Solifugae.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b Margulis, Lynn; Schwartz, Karlene (1998), Five Kingdoms, An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth (third ed.), W.H. Freeman and Company, ISBN 0-7167-3027-8
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