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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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levator muscle
Animals; Crustaceans
A muscle which moves the limb upwards by rotating it about the CB joint.
postantennal process
Animals; Crustaceans
A paired, ventral sclerite modified to form a spinoform, tapering process located on the ventral surface of the cephalothorax in some siphonostomatoids (e.g. Caligidae) and poecilostome cyclopoids ...
mesoparasite
Animals; Crustaceans
A parasitic copepod that lives partly embedded in its host, usually with the anterior end forming an anchor process.
sub-
Animals; Crustaceans
A prefix indicating "almost" or "just less than," e.g., submarginal—almost on the margin.
scutellate
Animals; Crustaceans
A process with a broad base that is distally expanded into a dorso-ventrally flattened, broad, sub-triangular to oblong process.
