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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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Crustaceans

apicoumbonal ridge

Animals; Crustaceans

Barnacle plate feature; in scutum of stalked form, ridge extending from upper point (apex) to umbo.

lower latus

Animals; Crustaceans

Barnacle plate: in stalked form, general term for one of a number of smaller plates forming a series (whorl) below each upper latus.

intramedian latus

Animals; Crustaceans

Barnacle plate: paired plates (latera) in stalked form, one below each upper latus.

upper latus

Animals; Crustaceans

Barnacle plate: paired plates (latera) in stalked form, one on each side of capitulum between scutum and tergum or carina.

hirsute

Animals; Crustaceans

Bearing hairs (elongate hairs in the case of most isopods).

tuberculate

Animals; Crustaceans

Bearing knoblike or wartlike prominences or tubercles.

triunguiculate

Animals; Crustaceans

Bearing three claws, as in a trifid dactylus.

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