BY255L Invertebrate Zoology Lab > Phylum Arthropoda

Subphylum Anomalocarida (extinct)

• See below for links ↓

Subphylum Chelicerata

> Class Arachnida (spiders and mites)

» Order Acarina

• Ticks: Identification, Tick Control, Lyme Disease
• mite: Definition, Synonyms and Much More From Answers.com
• Tick (Order Acarina)
• Mite (Order Acarina)

> Class Pycnogonida (sea spiders)

• Some authorities place the Pycnogonids in their own subphylum instead of a class under Chelicerata.

Subphylum Crustacea

> Class Branchiopoda

» Order Cladocera

• Daphnia “water flea”

> Class Copepoda

• Cyclops

> Class Malacostraca

» Order Decacoda

• Clibanarius vittatus “green-striped hermit crab” in tulip shell
• Clibanarius sp. shed
• Emerita talpoidia “mole crab” dorsal ventral
• Ocypode quadrata “ghost crab” dorsal ventral
• Uca sp. (♂ male) “fiddler crab” (probably U. pugilator or U. minax)
• Scyllarus sp. “slipper lobster” dorsal ventral
• crab zoea (1st larval stage)
• crab megalops (2nd larval stage)

» Order Stomatopoda

• Squilla empusa-1 “mantis shrimp” (specimen 1)
• Squilla empusa-2 “mantis shrimp” (specimen 2) dorsal || ventral

> Class Ostacopoda

• Ostracoda

Subphylum Trilobita (victims of the Great Permian Extinction)

• Trilobite 1
• Trilobite 2 dorsal ventral

Subphylum Uniramia

> Class Insecta

» Order Diptera

• Mosquito mouth
• Musca domestica “housefly” mouth

» Order Lepidoptera

• butterfly antenna
• Moth(top) and butterfly(bottom) antennae

» Order Hymenoptera

• Apis mellifera-honeybee wings

» Order Siphonaptera

• Ctenocephalides sp. - fleas - M♂(smaller) and F♀(bigger)

» Miscellaneous insect wings

• Insect wing-1
• Insect wing-2 (Order Lepidoptera?)
• Insect wing-3
• Insect wing-4

Arthropoda Web links

Miscellaneous links

• Introduction to the Arthropoda (UCBerkeley)
• The Columbia Encyclopedia - Arthropoda
• The Shape of Life . Arthropods | PBS
• Movies
• Blue crab life cycle
• Grubco-Try the “Super Sampler” 100 fly larvae + 4 more items
• Rainbow Mealworms & Crickets
• Oregon State species profiles
• Biomotion - UC Berkeley
• Eating bugs
• FDA allows bugs in food

Subphylum Anomalocarida links

• Anomalocaris - Cambrian super-predator
• The Anomalocaris Homepage (movies)
• 6.15MB movie (.mpg)
• Natural History Museum (UK):
• 3D VR (virtual reality) model
• Model image 1 Model image 2 Anomalocaris canadensis claw from Burgess Shale Burgess Shale scene

Subphylum Chelicerata links

• www.horseshoecrab.org (Check out “Poems, Tales & Images” tab.)

> Subphylum Chelicerata class Acarina (ticks and mites) links

• Tick in Amber - Hard tick - Ixodidae (impressive)
• Order Acarina - VIRTUAL BUG COLLECTION
• Evaluation of Three Commercial Tick Removal Tools The Ohio State University Biological Sciences

> Subphylum Chelicerata class Pycnogonida links

• Introduction to the Pycnogonida - UCMP Berkeley (assigned its own subphylum)
• Sea Spiders: Class Pycnogonida (earthlife.net)
• Class Pycnogonida (sea spiders) - University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• Sea spider (from Wikipedia)
• Tree of orders under Pycnogonida

Subphylum Crustacea links

• Crustacea glossary
• Daphnia
• fiddler crabs (videos!)
• Family : Ocypodidae, Ortmann, 1894
• How do marine invertebrates produce sounds?

Subphylum Trilobita links

• A Guide to the Orders of Trilobites (great!)
• Trilobite online anatomy
• The Trilobite Papers

Subphylum Uniramia links

• 31st insect order discovered “Mantophasmatodea”
• Wonderful World of Insects
• Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes
• bugbios - sahameless promotion of insect appreciation
• Cockroach dissection (Quicktime movie)

UAB links

• Arthropods of Public Health Importance-Eddie W. Cupp, Ph.D.(Auburn)