Arthropods (arthropoda) – Organisms whose body is composed of many parts (member). According to the number of representatives, the type of arthropods dominates the animal world. According to some authors, their number is over 1,500,000 species. They inhabit all the life environments (water, land and aerial). Their large adaptive radiation conditioned widespread, from the north to the south pole, from the deepest more polls to the highest places and from the dry areas to the wet rainforests. And in the fauna of Macedonia, arthropodes are represented by the largest number of taxa, many of which are endemic. Divided into 4 subconnections: chelizerates (rhenemen), jungal animals (broschia), trachea (tracist) and trilobite animals (trilobita). The sloping trilobite animals were marine inhabitants and died out at the end of the paleozoic. Lit.: Jonce Sapkarev, Zoology of invertebrate animals, Skopje, 1991. V. T. K. – M. Cr.
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