Arthropods Characteristics

Arthropods are mostly bugs like spiders or centipedes. Some of the other Arthropods are crabs and one that some people don't know the horseshoe crab. Even though these animals are all different they have simalar characteristics all Arthropods are phylum they are invertbrates that have a Exoskeleton a segmented body and have jointed parts called appendages. Apendages are legs and hands. Arthropods came from the Greek. Arthros means joint and pods means foot.