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Good work Bullet Magnet. But i don´t think that scrabs are arachnids
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Let me clarify things with an irate rant.
All those common names where my attempts at providing more depth into Oddworld. Almost all Earth species have a variety of names. Many of them are from the old names OWI gave them during production, like "Arachnid Junior" for paramites and "Oldger" for glukkons. Of course they are not arachnids. Arachnids evelved on earth and earth alone. Some of the common names were references that I actually heard in the games, eg for the fuzzles: "Little cuties" as Munch put it, and "MMM-MMMM!" as one Intern described them.
With the sloggies, I was also trying to add backstrory. I decided that there are two kinds: baby slogs, and a dwarfed sub species indistinguishable from then, that may raplec baby slogs in the litter, cuckoo-like.
With the mudokons I was just twisting the rules slightly. Sometimes species names are two words, but this is usually to distinguish sub-species. I was suggesting their may be other mudokon breeds, perhaps extinct, like
Homo Neanderthalis. For instance, the "moon Mudokons" in some fan-fics.
And I know interns have not always worked for Vykkerz. IBut we, as taxonomists, have only seen them this way, and can only dscribe species as they are on their discovery.
And the names- many species are named after the person who discovered them. It was my homage to Lorne Lanning and Farzad.
I also think that there are very few actually invertabrates on Oddworld. the ones I can accept are slurgs and some of the insectoid ammo and generic bugs that float around. The paramite torso is almost the same as the scrab torso, for creating the Shrykull "hybrid". And often things that are evovled are lost. So fuzzles may no longer have any vertebrae, but if their ancestors did then they are still vertabrates, unless you choose to create a third spine-based phylum.
Vertebrates are a sub-phylum in the chordata phylum. there are chordates (animals with a stiffening spinal rod) who are not vertebrates, eg the fish like descendants of a "missing link" between worm-like creatures and fish. the other phylums are all invertebrates: Arthropods (insects, crustaceans and all them) molluscs, and all the many different worm phylums.