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302: 40: 274: 240:) provide an example. The basic copepod body consists of a head, a thorax with six segments, ancestrally each with a swimming leg, and an abdomen with five appendageless segments. Except in parasitic species, the body is divided functionally into two tagmata, that may be called a "prosome" and a "urosome", with an articulation between them allowing the body to flex. Different groups of copepods have the articulation at different places. In the 194: 290: 213:. In the ancestral arthropod, the body was made up of repeated segments, each with similar internal organs and appendages. One evolutionary trend is the grouping together of some segments into larger units, the tagmata. The evolutionary process of grouping is called tagmosis (or tagmatization). 216:
The first and simplest stage was a division into two tagmata: an anterior "head" (cephalon) and a posterior "trunk". The head contained the brain and carried sensory and feeding appendages. The trunk bore the appendages responsible for locomotion and respiration
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Tagmosis proceeded differently in different groups of arthropods, so that the tagmata are not derived from corresponding (homologous) segments, even though the same names may be used for the tagmata.
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in aquatic species). In almost all modern arthropods, the trunk is further divided into a "thorax" and an "abdomen", with the thorax bearing the main locomotory appendages. In some groups, such as
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of insects. The segments within a tagma may be either fused (such as in the head of an insect) or so jointed as to be independently moveable (such as in the abdomen of most insects).
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or prosome (meaning "fore-part of body"). The posterior tagma may be called the abdomen. In those arachnids that have two tagmata, the abdomen is also called the
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In a given taxon the names assigned to particular tagmata are in some sense informal and arbitrary; for example, not all the tagmata of species within a given
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functions or anatomy. In some cases this has led to earlier names for tagmata being more or less successfully superseded. For example, the one-time terms "
273: 546: 523: 482: 407: 248:, the articulation is between the fifth and sixth thoracic segments, so that the sixth thoracic segment is in the urosome (see the diagram). 83: 61: 289: 328:(meaning head), the thorax (literally meaning chest, but in this application referring to the mid-portion of the body), and the 462: 225:, the cephalon (head) and thorax are hardly distinct externally and form a single tagma, the "cephalothorax" or "prosoma". 325: 565: 474: 185:. The latter two terms carry less of a suggestion of homology with the significantly different tagmata of insects. 209:
The development of distinct tagmata is believed to be a feature of the evolution of segmented animals, especially
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appear to have a single tagma with no obvious external signs of either segments or separate tagmata.
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to those of species in other subphyla; for one thing they do not all comprise corresponding
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Barnes, R.S.K.; Calow, P.; Olive, P.J.W.; Golding, D.W. & Spicer, J.I. (2001).
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Usually the term is taken to refer to tagmata in the morphology of members of the
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The development of animal form: ontogeny, morphology, and evolution
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Tagmata of an insect: head (cephalon), thorax and abdomen
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also have two tagmata but formed by different segments.
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Ruppert, E.E.; Fox, R.S. & Barnes, R.D. (2004).
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Tagmata (arthropod anatomy)
Tagma (military)
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biology
segments
metameres
morphological
thorax
abdomen
phylum
Arthropoda
Chordata
subphylum
homologous
somites
analogous
cephalothorax
abdomen
Araneae
prosoma
opisthosoma

Harpacticoida
copepod
arthropods
gills

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