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

receptaculi

Animals; Crustaceans

Modified setae that have bulbous recurved and denticulate tips. They are located on the medial margin of the maxilliped's basal endite and couple with their paired counterparts so that both ...

antennular flagellum

Animals; Crustaceans

Multiarticulate paired filaments (sometimes flattened and lamellate) of the antennule

antennal flagellum

Animals; Crustaceans

Multiarticulate, whiplike terminal part of the antenna.

# Narrow scissor-like blades of pincer end of cheliped, movable finger being dactyl, and fixed finger the terminal part of propodus. # Scissor-like blades of claw end of cheliped, one finger movable ...

spine row

Animals; Crustaceans

# Nomenclature of isopod cephalon (A). Examples of isopod mouth appendages: Idoteidae (B, C, F, H); Cirolanidae (D, E, G, I). # Spinose lobe on the mandible, between the molar and incisor processes.

coupling spine

Animals; Crustaceans

# Nomenclature of isopod cephalon (A). Examples of isopod mouth appendages: Idoteidae (B, C, F, H); Cirolanidae (D, E, G, I). # When present, coupling spines (or hooks) occur on the maxillipedal ...

unpaired receptacles

Animals; Crustaceans

Non-invaginated, opening either through an exposed median longitudinal slit flanked by lateral plates of sternite XIV, or openinng anterior to single plate.