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Crustaceans
Any member of the class of arthropods that includes lobsters, crabs, shrimps, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles.
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anterior process
Animals; Crustaceans
Anterior part of an elongate median protuberance lying on the penultimate (XIII) thoracic sternite.
fastigial plate
Animals; Crustaceans
Anteriormost of three plates (fastigial, ocular, postocular) composing acron at tip of head.
majid seta
Animals; Crustaceans
Anteriormost, usually prominent, submarginal seta on carapace postereio-lateral margin of oxyrhynch zoeae. Identified as a pappose type in species studied.
secondary plate
Animals; Crustaceans
Any one of numerous accessory calcareous elements on body (as opposed to primary plates). May include single rostrum, subrostrum, subcarina, and numerous lateral plates (latera, lateralia).
cyclomorph
Animals; Crustaceans
Any one of variously modified individuals in a population. These modifications are seasonal and generally involve the head (development of helmet) or changes in eye size or carapace spine length.
oostegopod
Animals; Crustaceans
appendage of genital somite in some branchiopods modified as brood pouch.
peeler crab
Animals; Crustaceans
As used in the fishery for blue crabs, a crab about to shed its shell; recognizable by the red line along the edge of the swimming paddles (fifth pair of thoracic legs).
