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

mysis stage

Animals; Crustaceans

# Larval stage in penaeoidean development equivalent to zoeal stage of Nephropoidea. # Post-cypris larval stage in ontogeny of most crustaceans, characterized by presence of biramous limbs on all ...

gill bailer

Animals; Crustaceans

# Leaf-like flap in a channel at the anterior opening of each branchial chamber in decapod crustaceans; by its beating, drives water forward in and out of the branchial chamber. # See ...

symbiosis

Animals; Crustaceans

# Living together of two or more dissimilar organisms. # Living in association with another organism.

coxal exite

Animals; Crustaceans

# Lobe produced from outer margin of coxa.

# Long, thin, ciliated lobe arising dorsally from proximomesial border of first antennular segment and extending anteriorly; found in Penaeidae. # Process arising from mesial margin of first article ...

cicatrix

Animals; Crustaceans

# Longitudinally disposed ridge(s) often present on lateral part of sixth abdominal somite. # ( pl. cicatrices )

metastoma

Animals; Crustaceans

# Lower lip behind mandibles, usually cleft into pair of lobes termed paragnatha. # Lower lip posterior to mandibles, usually cleft into pair of lobes (paragnaths).