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Q: Which Class of arthropod constitutes 90 percent of all known species?
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What class of arthropods make up around 90 percent of all known animal species?

The hexapoda subphylum containing the insecta class is the largest with around a million described arthropod species.


Insects are the most numerous species on the earth?

Insects are not a species. Insects are are a class of invertebrates within the arthropod phylum. That is like asking if mammals are the most numerous species. Your question needs to be refined. Are you asking if insects are the most numerous class of animal? Most numerous species of living thing? Or perhaps you are thinking of a specific species such as monarch butterfly (Danausplexippus).


What is the main arthropod?

By count the most arthropod species fall under the Insecta class, with a million species described and millions estimated yet to be described. By count, insects are over half of all living animals and by some estimates may constitute up to ninety percent of all living animals on the earth. In biomass, krill take the top spot weighing in from up to half to three quarters of a billion tonnes, and thus having a huge significance in the food chain.


What class of arthropod is round?

No one arthropod class has members with predominantly round body shapes, particularly since classes are so broad and each usually have so many species. Horseshoe crabs under class Merostomata have a roundish body shape and somewhat hemi-spheroidal (oblate); the barnacles under class Maxillopoda have examples which are noticeably round, but not all. Some water fleas under class Branchopoda can be quite rounded.


Do king crab have backbones?

No. They are in the arthropod class. (Invertabrate)


Which arthropod class uses green glands for excretion?

crustacea


What is the definition of Arachnids?

An arthropod of the class Arachnida, such as a spider or scorpion.


Is a spidder a myriapod?

No. Spiders are not myriapod. They are arthropod's class is arachnids.


What phylum and class do the moth belong to?

moths belong to the phylum arthropod


Does arthropds belong to class insects?

No, insects belong to the phylum Arthropod.


Which contains the fewest species kingdom domain phylum class or order?

Domain contains the fewest number of categories, with only three domains recognized in biological classification: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya.


Is a butterfly kingdom animal?

Animals. They're in the Arthropod phylum and the Insect class.