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PHYLUM ARTHROPODA: CHARACTERISTICS AND CLASSIFICATION

GENERAL CHARACTERS OF PHYLUM ARTHROPODA   Aristotle described crabs and some decapods. He grouped them as malacostraca in insecta.   The name Arthropod means jointed legs. These animals are meteorically segmented, coelomate and triploblastic.   It is the largest phylum of Animal kingdom. These animals are multicellular triploblastic, bilaterally symmetrical…