What is chief characteristic of anthropods?

Answer 1

Arthropods are invertebrates having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin.
They are divided into four sub-groups:
- Crustaceans: have gills, more than six legs and two pairs of antennae.
Eg: Crab, barnacle, lobster, shrimp, remipede.
- Insects: have six legs and many have two pairs of wings.
Eg: Dragonfly, moth, ladybird, ants.
- Arachnids: have eight legs, no wings and their bodies are in two parts/ segments.
Eg: Spiders.
- Myriapods: have many feet and long bodies of many segments/ parts.
Eg: Millipedes, centipedes, myriapods.

Answer 2

You may be thinking of arthropods, a taxonomic classification (phylum) of living organisms characterized by joint appendages and exoskeletons, like insects and crustaceans. Depending on where the word appears, "antropods" is probably a typographical error (or a neologism, a word not in common usage).

Answer 3

The chief characteristic of arthropods would be their exoskeleton, made mostly of a tough protein called chitin; this gives them a segmented appearance and necessitates jointed appendages (hence the phylum's name, Arthropoda, which comes from Greek for jointed foot or jointed leg).

Note that the term 'anthropod' should not be confused with 'arthropod' - anthropod is not a phylum but is a general term meaning human or humanoid.

Answer 4

Note that the term 'anthropod' should not be confused with 'arthropod' - anthropod is not a phylum nor taxon but is a general term meaning human or humanoid. Anthropod comes from the Greek, anthrop- "human" + pod "foot" (bipedal human).

The term 'arthropod' also comes from the Greek arthro [arthron] (joint) and pod [pous, podos] (meaning foot or leg) hence, the jointed appendages characterization of the phylum.

Answer 5

The word 'anthropod' is not a phylum and refers specifically to humans and humanoids. Aside from the term's more general non-biological application it describes only one species, homo sapiens. This is not to be confused with arthropods (phylum arthropoda) which include arachnids (spiders and scorpions, horseshoe crabs and sea spiders), myriapods (like centipedes and millipedes), crustaceans (shrimp, lobsters, crabs, etc), hexapods (insects), and others.

Answer 6

Anthropods are animals with segmented appendages. They are invertabrates because they don't have back bones.

Answer 7

a arthropod is a group a species containing spiders lobster crab scropine harvestmen mites

and ticks