Animals

Animals

Any living creature of the Kingdom Animalia constituting multi-celled organisms as well as single-celled organisms lacking chlorophyll and having the ability for spontaneous movement, such as protozoans.

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median apophysis

Animals; Spiders

A selerite arising from the middle division of the male palpal organs.

metatarsus

Animals; Spiders

The sixth segment of the leg, counting from the body.

orb web

Animals; Spiders

A two-dimensional web, roughly circular in design (and, strictly speaking, a misnomer). Silk threads radiate like spokes from a central hub. These are then overlaid with a spiral ...

palp

Animals; Spiders

Short for pedipalp. The appendage arising just in front of the legs, the coxa of which also forms the maxilla. It has no metatarsal segment and in adult males is greatly modified ...

palpal organs

Animals; Spiders

The more or less complex structures fs)und in the terminal part of the adult male palp. They comprise groups of sclerites separated from each other and the cymbium by up to three ...