Plants and Animals

What is the body of a Chelicerata?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/body-chelicerata-139616.html" >What is the body of a Chelicerata?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

The body is composed of an unsegmented anterior region (prosoma) with a pair of chelicera a pair of leglike appendages (pedipalps) four pairs of walking legs and a posterior region (opisthosoma); it is equipped with book lungs or tracheae for respiration.

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about Chelicerata . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: What makes up the body of a Chelicerata? What is the body of a Chelicerata composed up? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Tailless whipscorpion (Phrynus longipes) feeds on Antillean Crested Hummingbird...
Magazine article from: The Wilson Journal of Ornithology ...Lazell 2005). The average body length of P. longipes is...observed an adult P. longipes (body ~30 mm long) feeding on an...feeding on the hummingbird's body; it continued to feed for 2...P. 2000. Whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi): their biology...
Findings in biology reported from M. Rezac and co-researchers.
Newspaper article from: Science Letter ...sperm by using the copulatory organ to penetrate the female's body wall). As all previously reported arthropod examples have...demonstrates the first case of TI in the arthropod subphylum Chelicerata, in particular how the genital morphology and mating behaviour...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.