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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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frill
Animals; Crustaceans
Type of valve sculpture: wide, wing-like structure. Typically double-walled and extending beyond free edge of valves. (denticulate, nodulous, reticulate, septate, spinose, striate, undulating).
cleaning setae
Animals; Crustaceans
Unusual setulate setae used to clean the antennae or antennulae. These setae are located on the distal segment of the mandibular palp.
uniserate
Animals; Crustaceans
Used of egg sacs containing only a single row of eggs, often disc-like in shape.
subchirocerate
Animals; Crustaceans
Used of male antennules with moderately swollen middle segments and with only two segments distal to geniculation.
chirocerate
Animals; Crustaceans
Used of male antennules with one very swollen, thick walled segment and with only one segment distal to the geniculation.
stenopodial
Animals; Crustaceans
Used of non-prehensile maxillipeds, typically with three long narrow segments.
podoplean
Animals; Crustaceans
Used of the body plan in which the prosome-urosome boundary lies posterior to the fourth pedigerous somite.
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