Arthropoda

[ ahr-throp-uh-duh ]

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noun

1865–70; < New Latin; arthro-, -poda ( def )

Arthrozoa, a name sometimes given to all articulated animals, including the arthropoda and worms.

Yet in the next family Alonella nana (Baird) disputes the palm and claims to be the smallest of all known Arthropoda.

The chief feature in which Peripatus was supposed to differ from normal Arthropoda and Annelida, viz.

The sub-kingdom Arthropoda contains a vast assemblage of animals, all of which, as the name implies, possess jointed appendages.

The name Arthropoda, meaning "jointed-footed," suggests perhaps one of the most obvious points of resemblance.

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