How to pronounce“chelicerate”in English

So horseshoe crabs must’ve split off from the chelicerate family tree beforehand, putting them in their own, very ancient, order, Xiphosura.

Named for their jointed limbs, arthropods have a segmented body covered in a hard exoskeleton and include insects along with crustaceans, milli- and centi-pedes, horseshoe crabs, spiders, scorpions, and other chelicerates. So to narrow it down and get into what our mode animal looks like, eats, and where it lives, let’s live a day in the life of the “most animal” animal!

At one point in evolutionary time, all chelicerates lived in the water, like horseshoe crabs do today.

Horseshoe crabs are definitely an arthropod, and their mouthparts and body plan put them somewhere in the class Chelicerata, which would make them distant cousins with the more