Crustaceans

Crustaceans

Any member of the class of arthropods that includes lobsters, crabs, shrimps, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles.

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Crustaceans

inter-antennular septum

Animals; Crustaceans

# A median, ventrally directed, cuticular outgrowth that separates the two cavities into which each antennule is retracted. # See: Orbito-antennulary pits Plate in some malacostracans that ...

sensilla

Animals; Crustaceans

A modified seta found on the dactylus of the pereopods. It is similar to an aesthetasc, but has a heavier cuticle that is covered with many tiny lobes (often only visible in a scanning electron ...

# A modified seta on the tip of the dactylus. # Most distal article of pereopod and cheliped. In the case of a pereopod it may be fused to the dactylus to form a claw. # Terminal claw-like portion of ...

vermigon

Animals; Crustaceans

A motile, multicellular, vermiform larval stage injected by a kentrogon larva into the host.

pereonite

Animals; Crustaceans

# A segment of the pereon. # Somite belonging to the pereon. Somite of pereon. # One of five segments (somites) of pereon (i.e., all thoracomeres except first three which are fused to cephalon). # ...

appendix interna

Animals; Crustaceans

# A slender rodlike lappet on the mesial ,argin of the endopod of the second through fifth pleopods of shrimps; it is provided with terminal hooked setae by which the two pleopods of a pair must be ...

thelycum

Animals; Crustaceans

# A specialized genital modification of the three posterior sternites in female penaeidean shrimps. # External pocket on ventral side of thorax in panaeid female serving as seminal receptacle. # ...