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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
ovigerous spines
Animals; Crustaceans
The long spinous processes on the ventral surface of the genital double-somite of female monstrillids, used for carrying eggs.
calamus
Animals; Crustaceans
The main claw on the apex of the basis of the maxilla of some siphonostomatoids.
milne-edwards openings
Animals; Crustaceans
The main inhalant respiratory openings; one on either side between the base of the cheliped and the lower edge of the branchiostegite.
myxal surface
Animals; Crustaceans
The medial surface of the corpus of the maxilliped of siphonostomatoids, sometimes produced into a short (myxal) process.
moult to puberty
Animals; Crustaceans
The moult to sexual maturity and consequently to the reproductive phase.
stretcher muscle
Animals; Crustaceans
The muscle which bends the leg backwards at the CP joint (stretches the cheliped).
