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Re: insects - not! (OT)



Phil Bigelow wrote:

The largest living "land" invertebrate is the Robber Crab.  Do a Google
on it.
It spends a lot of its time hunting on land.  Getting enough oxygen isn't
the limiting factor for big land arthropods.  Their problem is keeping
their gills moist.  Beyond a certain mass, the gills dry out faster than
the body can remoisten them.

This cannot apply to insects or myriapods, which do not have gills (except for the juveniles of some insect groups). It may apply to aquatic chelicerates and custaceans.