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

pre-anal carina

Animals; Crustaceans

A rigid keel protruding from the ventral midline of the sixth abdominal somite between the insertions of the uropods in certain shrimps.

broom seta

Animals; Crustaceans

A sensory seta that has a distinctly articulated pedestal, and two distal rows of long, extremely thin setules. It may be found on the antennulae or any of the pereopods.

unequally bifid seta

Animals; Crustaceans

A seta that is often spine-like and has a smaller thin seta or hair just proximal to its tip. The hair has a nerve extending into the cuticle and is probably the external expression of a sensory ...

setulate seta

Animals; Crustaceans

A seta with one or more rows of setules. It is different from plumose or hemiplumose setae in that the row is limited to a section of the shaft, and does not extend from base to tip.

flagellar lobule

Animals; Crustaceans

A slender process extending from the distomesial angle of that lateral major lobe of the first maxilliped.

A small (pappose-type seta in species studied) occuring on or near the outermost part of the telson posterior margin in anomuran larvae (and also Dromia), and distinct from all other types of telson ...