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

# Feature on carapace of dromiid crabs comparable to thalassinica. # Longitudinal groove or uncalcified line on dromioidean decapods comparable with linea thalassinica. # On each side of carapace in ...

mesocerebrum

Animals; Crustaceans

Ganglion of antennular somite.

larva

Animals; Crustaceans

# General term for early stages of shrimps after hatching from the egg, morphologically quite different from adult. # One of up to nine stages of development after hatching from egg. On may ...

carapace tooth

Animals; Crustaceans

# Generally blunt projection of carapace, often broader than spine. # See: Carapace teeth, Stomatopod integumental ornamentation Small sharp spinous projection in varied locations — named ...

pleurobranchia

Animals; Crustaceans

# Gill attached to the body wall (pleural membrane), dorsal to the articulation of the appendage. # See pleurobranch.

podobranchia

Animals; Crustaceans

Gill born on basal segment (coxa) of a thoracic appendage.

cervical sulcus

Animals; Crustaceans

# Groove or series of grooves sometimes present on carapace; mesially transverse, laterally oblique, and separates gastric and hepatic regions from cardiac and branchial regions. # Mesially ...