Abstract:All the animals that are included within the arthropod assemblage show a degree of similarity frequently lacking in other groups that are nervertheless recognised without dispute as single phyla. For ...All the animals that are included within the arthropod assemblage show a degree of similarity frequently lacking in other groups that are nervertheless recognised without dispute as single phyla. For example it is quite easy to accept a relationship between all the leg-bearing spiders and insects, crabs and woodlice; but difficult to appreciate the common ancestry of the snails, clams and squids that together constitute the molluscs. It is therefore odd, at first sight, that there should be -particular disagreement about the status of arthropods as a single phylum.Read More
Publication Year: 1990
Publication Date: 1990-02-15
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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