MARINE ARTHROPODS

1. What class of Arthropods is the dominant class in the marine environment?

2. What is involved ion Arthropod growth?

3. What is the simplest larva stage in Crustaceans?

4. What are copepod?

5. What is the shell of a barnacle similar to in other Arthropods?

6. Describe the life cycle of the barnacle.

7. Where are Amphipods found?

8. What is an Isopod?

9. What is the structural difference between swimming decopods and walking/crawling decopods?

10. What animals are intermediate between lobsters and crabs? What feature puts them here?

11. Where is the abdomen in the crab?

12. Name a member of phylum Merostomata.

13. What is the telson used for?

14. What do the Merostomata use the base of their last pair of legs for?

15. What is a member of the class Pycnogonida?

16. Where are these animals found?

17. If the abdomen is so reduced in these animals, where are its organs?

18. What strange feature separate these animals from the arachnids?