Crustaceans

Crustaceans

Any member of the class of arthropods that includes lobsters, crabs, shrimps, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles.

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Crustaceans

A suborder of decapod crustaceans in which the fifth pair of pereiopods are extremely reduced and often concealed beneath the carapace; the antennae are placed to the outside of the eyestalks and the ...

striate

Animals; Crustaceans

A surface bearing fine carinae placed parallel to each other.

frontal arch

Animals; Crustaceans

A thickening of the cephalic frons that provides a strengthened arch between the fossal regions of the clypeus on either side of the frons. Generally associated with enlarged and heavily sclerotized ...

juvenile

Animals; Crustaceans

A young shrimp, lobster or crab that has completed its larval and postlarval stages but its not yet a sexually mature adult.

conglobate

Animals; Crustaceans

Able to roll up into a ball, as in some sphaeromatid and oniscidean isopods.

maxillipedal somite

Animals; Crustaceans

According to interpretation dividing body into cephalon, maxillipedal segment, and thoracoabdomen, one-segment tagma bearing maxillipeds. May also be considered as belonging to cephalon or thorax.