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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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catalepsis
Animals; Crustaceans
Bridging of the dorsal surface of the shrimp, as if telson is about to touch rostrum; a defensive position.
phyllopodia
Animals; Crustaceans
Broad "leafy" limbs formed from enlarged exites or epipods arising from the base of a limb.
calcified inner lamella
Animals; Crustaceans
Calcified part of the inner (medial) lamella of valve margin.
ocular sinus
Animals; Crustaceans
Cavity in anterodorsal margin of each valve; contains compound eye and is overlaid by eye tubercle.
gonoduct
Animals; Crustaceans
Common duct formed by merger of vas deferens and oviduct on each side of sixth thoracic segment (thoracomere). Opens through gonopore.
tegumental glands
Animals; Crustaceans
Compound glands situated in pereonal cavity which secrete a silk-like substance used in construction of the animal's tube.
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