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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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parietal tube
Animals; Crustaceans
One of myriad pore-like canals in longitudinal septum of balanomorph cirripeds, disposed normal to inner and outer laminae of compartment plate and separating them.
ala
Animals; Crustaceans
# One of pair of posteriorly directed cephalic-shield extensions; in cirripeds (Balanomorpha), triangular lateral part of compartment plate delimited from paries, which is overlapped by adjacent ...
caudal ramus
Animals; Crustaceans
# One of paired appendages constituting caudal furca, usually rodlike or bladelike, sometimes filamentous and multiarticular. # Single appendage of terminal abdominal somite paired with another to ...
cephalic somite
Animals; Crustaceans
# One unit of cephalon bearing distnctive pair of appendages. # Unit division of head region, generally recognized as one of five such parts which bear distinctive paired appendages (antennules, ...
schizopod larva
Animals; Crustaceans
# Ontogenetic stage characterized by presence biramous limbs on all thoracic somites. # Mysis.
