What is the locomotion in arthropods?

Answer 1

By walking, flying, swimming. Just about any method you can think of. As the largest phylum in the animal kingdom arthropods include crustaceans, Insects and arachnids.

Most walk, but certain species can swim, hop, fly and even wiggle in some larval stages. Some species of spider are even transported by the wind using silk as a parachute

Answer 2

There isn't a simple answer. Arthropods are a large family and make up about 80% of all known species. Examples of arthropods are Spiders, crabs, and centipedes. Each obtain food in a different way. Some hunt for their food, some are scavengers, and some just eat algae.

Answer 3

Mobility in adult arthropods is facilitated through appendages controlled by the organism which react against a surface or medium controlled by muscles (or occasionally body fluid pressure) connected to the nervous system and brain; legs for almost all arthropods, swimmerets (and in some larval forms, even antennae) in liquid, and wings for some, (although strictly speaking wings are not considered appendages). In many crustaceans like shrimp, lobster, crayfish, there exists a "caridoid escape reaction" by which they can achieve a burst of speed by abdominal muscle compression, used to escape predators, in effect flipping their tail to swim suddenly backwards. In some parasitic arthropods, ongoing movement may not be as important as staying on the host and physical adaptations are present to accommodate this strategy, hence, exploiting the host for movement. Some move by a somewhat spectacular jumping action; fleas are one of the best jumpers of all animals relative to body size.

Answer 4

Arthropods overcome the challenge of a rigid and inflexible exoskeleton by use of jointed appendages that provide for flexion and thus allow locomotion. Legs, wings, swimeretes, body segments all provide degrees of articulation by use of specialized joints adapted to the type of motion they facilitate.

Answer 5

Arthropod locomotion varies depending on the environment. Arthropods have legs for walking and perching; flight-capable insects use wings; aquatic arthropods often have swimmeretes like shrimp, krill, and others. Because of the hard exoskeleton, all modes of locomotion depend on jointing to provide the degree of freedom reflected in the particular appendage used for locomotion.

Answer 6

Since arthropods have hard exoskeletons, strategy for arthropod locomotion has to take this into account. Mostly the strategy involves specialized appendages, such as jointed legs which react against a surface (such as crab legs on the ocean floor, or insect legs against a hard surface; millipedes are renown for an abundance of legs), or muscles which exploit the articulation in their abdomenal body segmentation such as the powerful tail of a crayfish to boost them backwards through a liquid medium. Shrimp use swimmerets as paddles in order to move through water; some lobsters have pleopods to assist with swimming. Flying insects, which are also arthropods, have a spectacular mobility enabled through various wing configurations.

Answer 7

Arthropod's have legs with joints and use them to move.

Answer 8

Arthopods are in vertebrates with jointed appendages. They make up the largest phylum of animals which include

Answer 9

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Answer 10

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