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