Arthropoda
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Taxonavigation
Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphyla (4 + 2†):
Chelicerata –
"Crustacea" –
Hexapoda –
Myriapoda –
†Artiopoda –
†Dinocaridida
Cladi:
Pancrustacea
incertae sedis:
Classes:
†Marrellomorpha –
†Megacheira
Ordines:
†Bradoriida
Familiae:
†Priscansermarinidae
Genera:
†Aaveqaspis –
†Burgessia –
†Bushizheia –
†Fengzhengia –
†Kiisortoqia –
†Kylinxia –
†Notchia –
†Serracaris –
†Siriocaris –
†Wingertshellicus
Overview of classes (15)
Arachnida –
Branchiopoda –
Cephalocarida –
Chilopoda –
Diplopoda –
Entognatha –
Insecta –
Malacostraca –
Maxillopoda –
Merostomata –
Ostracoda –
Pauropoda –
Pycnogonida –
Remipedia –
Symphyla
[Source: Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist]
Name
Arthropoda Gravenhorst, 1843
Synonyms
- Condylipoda Latreille, 1802
References
Primary references
- Gravenhorst, J.L.C. 1843. Vergleichende Zoologie. Breslau: Druck und Verlag von Graß, Barth und Comp. 687 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des crustacés et des insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. F. Dufart, Paris, pp. i-xii + 13–467 [+ 1 (errata)]. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
Classification
- Latreille, P.A. 1829. Tome IV. Crustacés, arachnides et partie des insectes. In: Cuvier G. (Ed) Le règne animal distribué d’après son organisation, pour servir de base à l’histoire naturelle des animaux et d’introduction à l’anatomie comparée, avec figures dessinées d’après nature. Nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée. Déterville, Paris, xxvii + 584 pp. BHL Reference page.
- Zhang, Z-Q. 2011. Phylum Arthropoda von Siebold, 1848. Pp 99–103 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. PDF. Reference page.
- Zhang, Z.-Q. 2013. Phylum Arthropoda. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2013. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013). Zootaxa 3703(1): 17–26. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.6
. Reference page.
Authorship
- Hegna, T.A., Legg, D.A., Møller, O.S., Van Roy, P. & Lerosey-Aubril, R. 2013. The correct authorship of the taxon name ‘Arthropoda’. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 71(2): 71–74. PDF. Reference page.
- Martínez-Muñoz, C.A. 2023. The correct authorship of Arthropoda—A reappraisal. Integrative Systematics: Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History 6(1). DOI: 10.18476/2023.472723
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Phylogeny
- Campbell, L.I., Rota-Stabelli, O., Edgecombe, G.D., Marchioro, T., Longhorn, S.J., Telford, M.J., Philippe, H., Rebecchi, L., Peterson, K.J. & Pisan, D. 2011. MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda. PNAS 108(38): 15920–15924. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105499108
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- Giribet, G. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2012. Reevaluating the Arthropod Tree of Life. Annual Review of Entomology 57: 167–186. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100659
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Fossils
- Briggs, D.E.G. & Collins, D. 1988. A Middle Cambrian chelicerate from Mount Stephen, British Columbia. Palaeontology 31(3): 779–798. BHL. Reference page.
- Lagebro, L., Stein, M., & Peel, J.S. 2009. A new ?lamellipedian arthropod from the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet Fauna of North Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 83(5): 820–825. DOI: 10.1666/09-011.1
. Reference page.
- Lerosey-Aubril, R., Zhu, X. & Ortega-Hernández, J. 2017. The Vicissicaudata revisited – insights from a new aglaspidid arthropod with caudal appendages from the Furongian of China. Scientific Reports 7: 11117. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-11610-5
. Reference page.
- Peel, J.S. & Stein, M. 2009. A new arthropod from the lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Fossil-Lagerstätte of North Greenland. Bulletin of Geosciences 84(4): 625–630. DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1158
. Reference page.
- Stein, M. 2010. A new arthropod from the Early Cambrian of North Greenland, with a 'great appendage'-like antennula. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158(3): 477–500. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00562.x
. Reference page.
Miscellaneous
- Amon, D.J., Ziegler, A.F., Drazen, J.C., Grischenko, A.V., Leitner, A.B., Lindsay, D.J., Voight, J.R., Wicksten, M.K., Young, C.M. & Smith, C.R. 2017. Megafauna of the UKSRL exploration contract area and eastern Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean: Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Ctenophora, Mollusca. Biodiversity Data Journal 5: e14598. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e14598. Reference page.
- Bichuette, M.E., Simões, L.B., Zepon, T., von Schimonsky, D.M. & Gallão, J.E. 2019. Richness and taxonomic distinctness of cave invertebrates from the northeastern state of Goiás, central Brazil: a vulnerable and singular area. Subterranean Biology, 29: 1–33. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.29.30418
Reference page.
- Cerretti, P.; Mason, F.; Minelli, A.; Nardi, G.; Whitmore, D. (eds) 2009: Research on the terrestrial arthropods of Sardinia. Zootaxa, 2318: 1–602. Title & copyright page Table of contents ISBN 978-1-86977-435-6 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-436-3 (online edition)
- Cerretti, P.; Mason, F.; Minelli, A.; Nardi, G.; Whitmore, D. 2009: Foreword. pp. 5–7 in Cerretti, P.; Mason, F.; Minelli, A.; Nardi, G.; Whitmore, D. (eds), Research on the terrestrial arthropods of Sardinia (Italy). Zootaxa, 2318: 1–602. Abstract & excerpt PDF
- Cerretti, P.; Mason, F.; Minelli, A.; Nardi, G.; Whitmore, D. 2009: Index. pp. 596–602 in Cerretti, P.; Mason, F.; Minelli, A.; Nardi, G.; Whitmore, D. (eds), Research on the terrestrial arthropods of Sardinia (Italy). Zootaxa, 2318: 1–602. Abstract & excerpt PDF
- Hamilton, A.J., Novotný, V., Waters, E.K., Basset, Y., Benke, K.K., Grimbacher. P.S., Miller, S.E., Samuelson, G.A., Weiblen, G.D., Yen, J.D.L. & Stork, N.E. 2013. Estimating global arthropod species richness: refining probabilistic models using probability bounds analysis. Oecologia 171(2): 357–365. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2434-5
- Lopes, D.A., Corrêa-Gomes, D. & Knoff, M. 2017. Type material of Acanthocephala, Nematoda and other non-helminths phyla (Cnidaria, Annelida, and Arthropoda) housed in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute/ FIOCRUZ (CHIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1979 to 2016. ZooKeys 711: 1—52. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.711.14753. Reference page.
- O'Flynn, R.J., Audo, D., Williams, M., Zhai, D., Chen, H. & Liu, Y. 2020. A new euarthropod with ‘great appendage’-like frontal head limbs from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte, Southwest China. Palaeontologia Electronica 23(2): a36. DOI: 10.26879/1069
. Reference page.
- O'Flynn, R.J., Williams, M., Yu, M., Harvey, T.H.P. & Liu, Y. 2022. A new euarthropod with large frontal appendages from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. Palaeontologia Electronica 25(1): a6. DOI: 10.26879/1167
. Reference page.
- O'Flynn, R.J., Williams, M., Yu, M., Guo, J., Audo, D., Schmidt, M., Mai, H., Liu, Y. & Edgecombe, G.D. 2024. The early Cambrian Bushizheia yangi and head segmentation in upper stem-group euarthropods. Papers in Palaeontology 10(3): e1556. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1556
. Reference page.
- Perez-Gelabert, D.E. 2020. Checklist, Bibliography and Quantitative Data of the Arthropods of Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4749(1): 1–668. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4749.1.1
Reference page.
Links
- Arthropoda - Tree of Life Web Project. 1995.
- Zicha, Ondřej et al. Arthropoda – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
- Arthropoda – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
- Arthropoda – Taxon details on Fauna Europaea.
- Arthropoda – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
- Arthropoda – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.
- 2019 – Taxon details on The Taxonomicon.
- Arthropoda in the World Register of Marine Species
Vernacular names
Alemannisch: Gliderfießler
العربية: مفصليات الأرجل
অসমীয়া: সন্ধিপদী প্ৰাণী
azərbaycanca: Buğumayaqlılar
Boarisch: Gliaderfiassler
беларуская: Членістаногія
български: Членестоноги
বাংলা: সন্ধিপদ
català: Artròpodes
čeština: Členovci
dansk: Leddyr
Deutsch: Gliederfüßer
Ελληνικά: Αρθρόποδα
English: Arthropod
español: Artrópodos
eesti: Lülijalgsed
suomi: Niveljalkaiset
Nordfriisk: Laspuateten
français: Arthropodes
Gaeilge: Artrapód
galego: Artrópodos
עברית: פרוקי רגליים
hrvatski: Člankonošci
magyar: Ízeltlábúak
հայերեն: Հոդվածոտանիներ
italiano: Artropodi
日本語: 節足動物門
한국어: 절지동물문(節肢動物門)
lietuvių: Nariuotakojai
latviešu: Posmkāji
македонски: Членконоги
Bahasa Melayu: Artropod
Nederlands: Geleedpotigen
occitan: Artropòdes
polski: Stawonogi
português: Artrópode
română: Artropode
русский: Членистоногие
sicilianu: Artropodu
srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Člankonošci, zglavkari
slovenčina: Článkonožce
slovenščina: Členonožci
српски / srpski: Зглавкари
svenska: Leddjur
தமிழ்: கணுக்காலி (kanukkaali)
Türkçe: Eklem bacaklılar
українська: Членистоногі
Tiếng Việt: Động vật chân đốt
中文: 節肢動物門
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