What Are Jointed Legged Animals?

What Are Jointed Legged Animals? Insects, spiders, crabs, and scorpions belong to the phylum Arthropoda. Arthropods are invertebrate animals without a backbone. They have segmented bodies and an exoskeleton, a skeleton outside of their bodies. The name comes from another feature they share— jointed appendages such as wings, legs, and mouthparts. What animals have jointed