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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

epigastric tooth

Animals; Crustaceans

Tooth of the carapace situated above the gastric region behind the first (posteriormost) rostral tooth.

metamorphosed

Animals; Crustaceans

Tranformed; changed in appearance, structure, or function.

transverse groove

Animals; Crustaceans

Transverse suture superficially subdividing last (sixth) abdominal somite (pleomere).

frontal teeth

Animals; Crustaceans

True frontal teeth; those teeth originating on front but exclusive of inner orbital teeth.

vasa deferentia

Animals; Crustaceans

Tubes (one on either side) conveying sperm from testes to exterior.

alimentary tract

Animals; Crustaceans

Tubular organ comprising the oesophagus, foregut, hepatopancreas, and hindgut.

siphon

Animals; Crustaceans

Tubular, exhalant respiratory structure consisting dorsally of pseudorostral lobes (pseudorostrum) of carapace and laterally of anteriorly directed lobes (according to interpretation: siphonal lobe ...

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