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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

rasp

Animals; Crustaceans

One or several rows of chitinous plates or scales on surface of pereopodal or uropodal segments.

digestive diverticulum

Animals; Crustaceans

One or two pairs of digestive glands opening into digestive tract at border of stomach and midgut.

spiracle

Animals; Crustaceans

Opening to pseudotracheae on pleopods of certain terrestrial isopods.

distoventral projection

Animals; Crustaceans

Outer distal flap articulating with the distal extremity of ventrolateral lobule of petasma in members of the genus Metapenaeopsis.

third maxillipeds

Animals; Crustaceans

Outermost pair of mouth parts of a decapod crustacean; used, with the assistance of two other pairs of maxillipeds and two pairs of maxillae, for holding food until it can be pushed into the ...

mucous gland

Animals; Crustaceans

Gland located in proximal part (protopod) of each limb; empties through duct opening near endites.

spinneret

Animals; Crustaceans

Gland, located in forehead and opening to exterior via seta-like exopod of antenna. Secretes thread-like material used in locomotion.

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