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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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closer muscle
Animals; Crustaceans
The muscle which moves the dactlyus downwards relative to the propodus.
promotor muscle
Animals; Crustaceans
The muscle which moves the leg forwards by rotating it about the TC joint.
branchial count
Animals; Crustaceans
The number of gills and epipodites present on one side of the cephalothorax.
natasome
Animals; Crustaceans
The often posteriorly streamlined body section of a munnopsid janiroidean consisting of the following body segments: heavily muscularized pereonites 5-7, and the pleotelson.
pattern
Animals; Crustaceans
The order in which somites are added to the body relative to other somites, or that elements of segments are added to a limb relative to other elements; also the process of adding in a fixed order ...
rostral filaments
Animals; Crustaceans
The paired filaments, containing elements of the organ of Bellonci, arising from the rostrum.