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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

crustaceans

Animals; Crustaceans

Members of the superclass Crustacea of the phylum Arthropoda. Examples are shrimps, lobsters, crabs, amphipods, copepods, isopods, and barnacles.

dorsomedian lobule

Animals; Crustaceans

Mesial part of the medial lobe of the petasma.

sieve plate

Animals; Crustaceans

Minute, perforated plate covering pore in valve; may be associated with seta.

trichogon

Animals; Crustaceans

Minute, sexually mature instar of a settling male rhizocephalan cyprid that settles on the overy-filled externa of rhizocephalan barnacles.

radial pore canals

Animals; Crustaceans

Modified normal pores located at free margins of valves, housing nerve filaments that lead from tactile sensilla to nerve cells in the underlying epidermis.

antennary nerves

Animals; Crustaceans

Nerves extending from the tritocerebrum to the antennae.

detritus

Animals; Crustaceans

Non-living particulate organic matter inhabited by decomposer organisms; also, including dissolved carbon-containing substances excreted by plants and animals as well as soluble organic materials ...

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