How To Use chelicerate In A Sentence
- More problematic are the relationships of the four major groups, hexapods (including insects), crustaceans, myriapods (including centipedes and millipedes), and chelicerates (including spiders).
- As defined by Collins, Dinocarids are bilaterally symmetrical arthropods with a body divided into two principal tagmata, recalling the prosoma and opisthosoma of chelicerates, and a non-mineralised cuticle.
- The chelicerate body plan is characterized by two tagmata, the prosoma, including head structures, and the opisthosoma.
- The chelicerate body plan is characterized by two tagmata, the prosoma, including head structures, and the opisthosoma.
- Some arachnid chelicerates are parasites, such as ticks and mites.
- In contrast, myriapods and chelicerates mostly lack compound eyes and the ommatidia of the few groups that have compound eyes are very different from insect/crustacean ommatidia.
- Chelicerates are characterized by a pair of chelate preoral appendages and a body divided into two tagmata, the prosoma and opisthosoma.
- Major arthropod lines have long been recognized (insects, crustaceans, chelicerates, diplopods, chilopods, etc.), but the phylogenetic relationships among these groups remain controversial.
- The chelicerate hemocyanin subunits are basal, consistent with the assumption that the Chelicerata is a rather distinct arthropod taxon.
- Still other chelicerates are tiny organisms which feed on detritus, the bits of decaying matter that accumulate on and below the ground.
