INTRODUCTION:

The Animal Kingdom is generally believed to have originated in Archeozoic oceans

long before the first fossil record. Every major phylum of animals has at least
some marine representatives; some groups, such as cnidarians and echinoderms, are
largely or entirely marine lives. From the ancestral marine environment, different
groups of animals have invaded fresh water; some have moved onto land. There are
over a million described species of animals. About 5% of this number are consists
of animal with backbones or simply known as vertebrates. The rest of the 95%
consist the greater part of the Animal Kingdom, which are the invertebrates.
Backbone is the single characteristic which separates the entire animal kingdom
into two groups. However, the most successful animal among all the animal exist are
the arthropods which consist of 85% of the animals. Invertebrates do not hold a
single positive characteristic in common. Some invertebrates have common
phylogenetic origins and others are only remotely related.