Arthropods

The true count of living arthropods at any given moment on Earth is unknown but some estimates place it at around ten quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) which is over a billion for every human.

yes, because it has its skeleton on the outside (its shell)

They have muscles like us, except theirs are smaller and are connected to the inside of their exoskeletons, instead of wrapping around the endoskeleton like we have.

Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Superorder: Heterobranchia
Order: Pulmonata

The name for phylum Arthropoda is derived from "jointed legs" or jointed feet, and arthropods live up to that name. Because of the rigidity of the exoskeleton, joints are apparent in any of their mobile appendages; not just legs but some specialized appendages like swimmerets for aquatic arthropods, antennae, wings, all evidence some kind of jointing. Legs themselves may have specialized adaptations; some insects hear or taste with special organs on the legs or feet. Some crustaceans have legs bearing claws (chela) called chelipeds.

An arthropod is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages. Arthropods are members of the phylum Arthropoda, which together mean "jointed leg", and include the insects,arachnids, and crustaceans. (Ant, Spider and Crab)

No, krill are a type of fish that whales feed on. They are very small.

Yes dragonflies are arthropods. Insects are by far the most populous species of arthropods, including ants, beetles, butterflies, dragonflies and grasshoppers. Over 1 million arthropodic insect species have been identified, and the number grown on a nearly daily basis. These insects are characterized by a triple-segmented body containing a head, thorax and abdomen. Insect arthropods have 6 or more legs, two antennae and lateral, compound eyes.

Arthropoda are the most diverse and arguably the best distributed in species, with the highest count known of described species in any phylum. Over a million species under the phylum have been described and biologists estimate that millions of species have yet to be described. Most of these are in the Insecta class; and about 400,000 of them are beetles (coleoptera).

The actual count of living arthropods at any given moment on Earth is unknown but some estimates place them around ten quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) which is over a billion for every human. 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 (an arthropod crustacean) are believed to have the highest of any animal, weighing in from up to half to three quarters of a billion tonnes, and thus having a huge significance in the food chain.

They are (by definition) considered insects. They are in the insect order Lepidoptera and are classified with insects because they have a head, thorax, and abdomen. They also have three pairs of walking legs, antennae and a pair of wings-which are the characteristics of most insects.

They are having jointed limbs, a segmented body, an exoskeleton, and a well-developed nervous system. YOUR WELCOME PERSON!

Yes, it is classified as an insect.

Yes, it is classified as an insect.

Yes, it is classified as an insect.

Yes, it is classified as an insect.

Yes, it is classified as an insect.

Yes, it is classified as an insect.

Legs and exoskeletons were extremely useful, as these enabled the creatures to resist gravity, which is not a concern in the bouyancy of water.

That it's hungry.. >.<

three paits of jointed legs.

Edit: Be Real Man. The real answer is that the water pushes heavy stuff up to make them lighter in water then in land.

edit: really you both are rong the real answer is:Afaik this depends on the animal in question. Some insects, for example, do not grow in size at all when adults and thus avoid this problem. Animals that do shed their exoskeleton can move, the underlying soft exoskeletong along with the internal pressure of the animal are enough to facilitate this. But at least many crayfish (and likewise many otehr arthropods that shed their exoskeleton) hide until their exoskeleton has hardened again - that is, they can move, but will not unless they really have to. They just hide in some nook and wait.

And what comes to other disadvantages of chitious exoskeleton: it allows muscles to attach only inside of the exoskeleton, quite unlike human muscles for example work. This provides poorer strength production, which is why arthropods cannot really grow much larger than what we see around us. For similar reasons, virtually all the largest arthropods live in water, because there you need less strength to move heavy weights.

Even though we know that ants are mighty strong compared to their size, human-sized ants would collapse even udner their own weight and they could not carry a hundred or so times their weight like small ants do!

an arthropod sheds it old exoskeleton when it has grown to a point where it needs a larger exoskeleton. This process is called ecdysis.

They can change colors, yes. They can change from looking like a golden lady bug to looking like a lady bug by controlling the amount of moisture present under their shell.

Arthropods that damage plant parts to the point of interfering with or terminating biological, botanical, and zoological life cycles and natural histories are bugs that are bad for the garden. A garden-friendly behavioral standard can be set by adult birds and lepidopterans, who rarely feed upon nectar and pollen to the point of exhausting the plant's ability to keep producing such food sources which simultaneously are respectively attractants for and participants in reproduction-oriented activities. A garden-unfriendly standard is found among such defilers as aphids, insects that deplete a plant's life-giving nutrients channeled by capillary action upward from roots and photosynthetic products transported downward from leaves.

Ovoviviparous refers to an animal that retains the egg inside of them until it hatches and gives birth to larval young. Two insects that do this are Sarcophagid flies and tachinids.

Trilobites, and eurypterids (giant marine scorpions).

Ammonites are not arthropods but molluscs.

On the biological ruler, arthropods tend towards the small end of the spectrum, owing to physical limits imposed by their methods for respiration, gas exchange and circulatory system; a high surface area to volume ratio serves them quite well on these counts.

The smallest arthropods known are a crustacean parasite, Stygotantulus stocki, around a hundred micrometers long (about 4 thousandths of an inch).

bane of arthropods does extra damage to Spiders, cave spiders, and silverfish