List of arthropod orders

Wolf spider carrying its young in its egg sac.
Marrella, one of the puzzling arthropods from the Burgess Shale
A convex oval-shaped piece of shell, covered with fine orange-pink markings: the front edge is lined with 13 coarse serrations, while the rear edge is smooth.
A shed carapace of a lady crab, part of the hard exoskeleton

Arthropods are invertebrate animals with a chitinous exoskeleton, segmented bodies, and jointed legs. The phylum Arthropoda contains numerous taxonomic orders in over 20 classes.

Subphylum Hexapoda

Class Insecta

Head of a wasp with three ocelli (centre), and compound eyes at the left and right
A pair of Simosyrphus grandicornis hoverflies mating in flight.
Aedes aegypti, a parasite, is the vector of dengue fever and yellow fever

Class Entognatha

Proturan specimen (Acerentomon sp.)

Subphylum Chelicerata

Class Arachnida

Class Merostomata

220px Reconstructed Eurypterus

Class Pycnogonida Sea spiders

Pycnogonida

Class Yunnanata †

Subphylum Myriapods

A representative millipede and centipede (not necessarily to scale)
Ammodesmus nimba from Guinea, West Africa, curled in a defensive coil

Class Chilopoda (Centipedes)

Class Diplopoda (Millipede)

Subclass Penicillata

Subclass †Arthropleuridea

Subclass Chilognatha

Class Pauropoda

A pauropod

Class Symphyla

No known order, 200 species in 2 families.

Class Arthropleuridea (extinct)

Subphylum Crustaceans

Class Branchiopoda

Branchiopods

Class Remipedia

Class Cephalocarida

Class Maxillopoda

Subclass Thecostraca

Subclass Tantulocarida

Subclass Branchiura

Subclass Pentastomida

Adult female Linguatula serrata

Subclass Mystacocarida

Subclass Copepoda

Class Ostracoda

Ostracod

Subclass Myodocopa

Subclass Podocopa

Class Malacostraca

Syncarid Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus
Hoplocarid
Nebalia bipes Phyllocarid

Subclass Eumalacostraca

Subclass Hoplocarida

Subclass Phyllocarida

Class Trilobite

Paradoxides

Class Megacheira

Reconstructed Leanchoilia

Class Merostomoidea

Class Marrellomorph

Class Dinocaridida

References

  1. Shear, William A.; Edgecombe, Gregory D. (2010). "The geological record and phylogeny of the Myriapoda". Arthropod Structure & Development. 39 (2–3): 174–190. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2009.11.002. PMID 19944188.
  2. Hoffman, R.L. (1963). "New genera and species of Upper Paleozoic Diplopoda". Journal of Paleontology. 37 (1): 167–174. JSTOR 1301419.
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