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

luminescent organs

Animals; Crustaceans

# Areas producing light on the shrimp body; internal as part of gastro-hepatic gland (organ of Pesta), or as dermal photophore. # Photophore. # Photophore.

incisor process

Animals; Crustaceans

# Biting portion of gnathal lobe of mandible. # Cutting process on mandible; widely separated from molar or grinding process in some shrimps, e.g., Pandalidae, in close proximity in others, e.g., ...

lamina

Animals; Crustaceans

Blade or expanded part of scale or appendage segment.

arthrobranchia

Animals; Crustaceans

Branchia (gill) attached to the joint area between the body and the first podomere of the leg.

longitudinal tube

Animals; Crustaceans

# Canal formed in compartmental plate of some balanomorph cirripeds between longitudinal septa and inner and outer lamina. # Barnacle plate feature: in unstalked form, one in a series of canals ...

# Channels through which water passes from the gills and which open at the dorso-external (in the Brachyrhyncha) or at the middle (in the Oxyrhyncha) of the endostome margin. # Opening through which ...