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Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

28-1 Introduction to the Arthropods

Arthropods

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What Is an Arthropod?


Arthropods have a segmented body, a tough exoskeleton, and jointed appendages.

Arthropods include insects, crabs, centipedes, and spiders.

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Arthropods are surrounded by a tough external covering, or exoskeleton.

The exoskeleton is made from protein and chitin. Chitin is a carbohydrate.

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All arthropods have jointed appendages.

Appendages are structures that extend from the body wall.

Legs and antennae are appendages.

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Form and Function in Arthropods

• Arthropods use complex organ systems to carry out different essential functions.

• Organ systems are interrelated; the functioning of one system depends on that of other systems.

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Feeding

• Arthropods include herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. There are filter feeders, detritivores, and parasites.

• The mouthparts of arthropods are adapted to the type of food the arthropod eats.

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Most aquatic arthropods, such as lobsters and crabs, respire through featherlike gills.

Horseshoe crabs respire through book gills.

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Circulation

• Arthropods have an open circulatory system.

• The heart pumps blood through arteries that branch and enter the tissues.

Heart

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28–2 Groups of Arthropods

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Excretion

In aquatic arthropods, diffusion moves wastes from the body into the surrounding water.

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Response

• Most arthropods have a well-developed nervous system.

• All arthropods have a brain.

• Two nerves connect the brain to a ventral nerve cord. Along this nerve cord are several groups of nerve cells called ganglia.These ganglia coordinate the movements of individual legs.

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Most arthropods have sophisticated sense organs such as compound eyes.

Compound eyes may have more than 2000 separate lenses and can detect color and motion very well.

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Movement

• Arthropods move using well-developed groups of muscles that are coordinated and controlled by the nervous system.

• Muscles generate force by contracting and then pulling on the exoskeleton.

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Reproduction

• In some species, males deposit sperm inside females.

• In other species, the males deposit a sperm packet that is picked up by the females.

• Aquatic arthropods may have internal or external fertilization.

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Arthropods are classified based on the number and structure of their body segments and appendages—particularly their mouthparts.

The three major groups of arthropods are:

• crustaceans

• spiders and their relatives

• insects and their relatives

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Crustaceans

What are the distinguishing features of the crustaceans?

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Crustaceans

Crustaceans

Crustaceans are primarily aquatic.

This subphylum includes crabs, shrimps, lobsters, crayfishes, and barnacles.

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Crustaceans

Crustaceans typically have two pairs of antennae, two or three body sections, and chewing mouthparts called mandibles.

Abdomen

Mandible

Second antenna

First antenna

Cephalothorax

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Crustaceans

The crayfish has a body plan that is typical of many crustaceans.

The anterior cephalothorax is formed by fusion of the head with the thorax.

Cephalothorax

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Crustaceans

The thorax lies just behind the head and houses most of the internal organs.

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Crustaceans

The abdomen is the posterior part of the body.

Abdomen

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Crustaceans

The carapace is the part of the exoskeleton that covers the cephalothorax.

Carapace

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Crustaceans

In a crustacean, the first two pairs of appendages are antennae.

First antenna

Second antenna

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Crustaceans

The third pair of appendages are the mandibles.

A mandible is a mouthpart adapted for biting and grinding food.

Mandible

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Crustaceans

Decapods have five pairs of legs.

In crayfishes, the first pair of legs, called chelipeds, have large claws that catch, pick up, crush, and cut food.

Cheliped Cheliped Walking legs

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Crustaceans

Behind these legs are four pairs of walking legs.

Cheliped Walking legs

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Crustaceans

Along the abdomen are several pairs of swimmerets, which are flipperlike appendages used for swimming.

Swimmerets

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Crustaceans

The final abdominal segment is fused with a pair of paddlelike appendages to form a large, flat tail.

Tail

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Spiders and Their Relatives

What are the distinguishing features of spiders and their relatives?

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Horseshoe crabs, spiders, ticks, and scorpions are chelicerates.

Chelicerates lack antennae.

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Chelicerates have mouthparts called chelicerae and two body sections, and nearly all have four pairs of walking legs.

Fanglike chelicera

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Chelicerates have two pairs of appendages attached near the mouth that are adapted as mouthparts.

Fanglike chelicera

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Chelicerae contain fangs and are used to stab and paralyze prey.

Fanglike chelicera

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Pedipalps are longer than the chelicerae and are usually modified to grab prey.

Pedipalp

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Chelicerates are divided into three main classes.

• Merostomata includes horseshoe crabs.

• Pycnogonida includes sea spiders.

• Arachnida, or arachnids, includes spiders, mites, ticks, and scorpions.

Horseshoe crabs and sea spiders are both marine organisms.

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Horseshoe Crabs

Horseshoe crabs are found in shallow water on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. There has been a decline in number of individuals, as a consequence of coastal habitat destruction and pollution.

They have chelicerae, five pairs of walking legs, and a long spikelike tail that is used for movement. While they can swim upside down, they usually are found on the ocean floor searching for worms and molluscs, which are their main food. They may also feed on crustaceans and even small fish.

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Horseshoe crab

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Horseshoe crab

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Sea Spiders

Sea spiders have long legs in contrast to a small body size.

The number of walking legs is usually eight (four pairs), but species with five and six pairs exist.

Because of their small size and slender body and legs, no respiratory system is necessary, with gases moving by diffusion.

A proboscis allows them to suck nutrients from soft-bodied invertebrates, and their digestive tract has diverticula extending into the legs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory_system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proboscis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverticulum

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Sea spider

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28–2

The two main groups of chelicerates are

a. spiders and scorpions.

b. horseshoe crabs and spiders.

c. horseshoe crabs and arachnids.

d. arachnids and insects.

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Insects are part of the group

a. crustaceans.

b. uniramians.

c. chelicerates.

d. diplopods.

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28–2

Most mites and ticks are

a. parasites.

b. predators.

c. herbivores.

d. detritovores.

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28–2

Which of the following is NOT a typical crustacean characteristic?

a. either two or three body segments

b. chewing mouthparts called mandibles

c. chelicerae that paralyze prey

d. two pairs of antennae

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28–2

Spiders differ from the other arachnids because they have

a. two major body segments and six legs.

b. three major body segments and eight legs.

c. two major body segments and eight legs.

d. three major body segments and six legs.

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