Invertebrate Families

List of families and characterisitcs

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Phylum Crustacea: Order Isopoda
Sowbugs, pillbugs, wood lice

2 pair of antenna; sensitive to pollution; detritivores;
Family Sphaeromidae
Isopod with eyes and abdomen with 2 segments
Family Cirolanidae
Isopod lacking eyes and abdomen with 6 segments
Subphylum Unirami (common traits)
Uniramous appendages; single pair of antennae; gas exchange through trachea
Classes of Unirami
Chilipoda, diplopoda, insecta
Chilipoda
Centipedes

1 pair of legs per segment, forcipules, most predacious; indirect sexual reproduction; some brooding
Diplopoda
Millipedes


2 pairs of legs per segment; no poison glands; scavengers; roll up when threatened; female may dig nests, chunga loo loo
Apterygota
Subclass without wings
Collembola, protura, and diplura
All entognathous, lack compound eyes, tentorium not well developed
Order Proturans
Discovered by Berlese; prefer moist organic soils; no antennae; no cerci
Order Thysanura
Silverfish and firebrats

ectognatous mouthparts; long filiform antennae; 2 cerci and telson
Order Collembola  
Springtails and snowfleas


have simple ocelli; no wings; furca aids in jumping; live in warm/damp places; cutaneous respiration
Subclass paleoptera
Ancient wings
Order ephemeroptera
In paleoptera; mayflies

ephemera: there there and then gone; fresh water habitat; vestigial mouthparts; 2 long cerci; adults don't feed; subimago with wings; can't fold wings
Order Odonata
In paleoptera
2 subclasses: anisoptera and zygopteran
Anisoptera
Odonata; true dragonflies


rest with their wings out from their body; strong biting mouthparts; carnivores; poorly developed antennae; can flap their wings independently; nymphs generally walk though can speed with jet propulsion