ARTHROPODA

Arthropods

Record a sighting Alerts
Name source
Australian Faunal Directory
Rank
phylum
Data links
LSID
JSON / WMS/ RDF

Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ec21b060-78e8-4a37-9e62-b8bef532b001

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=phylum:ARTHROPODA
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence

 Recorded In Australia

Occurrence records map

occurrence map map legend

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Online resources

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
ARTHROPODA

Common Names

Common name Source
Arthropods
Is this a preferred common name for this phylum? YES | NO

Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
ARTHROPODA  Recorded in Australia
subphylum
CHELICERATA: Mites  Recorded in Australia
subphylum
CRUSTACEA: Crustacea  Recorded in Australia
subphylum
HEXAPODA: Collembolans  Recorded in Australia
subphylum
MYRIOPODA: Insects  Recorded in Australia

Occurrence records

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Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records

Hint: click on chart elements to view that subset of records

Name references found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Name references found in the TROVE - NLA