Crustacean

Of arthropod and Crustacea.

Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton.

This concept's ID is @1~10076

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  • decapod 7 facts

    Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to...

  • branchiopod crustacean 4 facts

    Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike...

  • malacostracan crustacean 4 facts

    A major subclass of crustaceans.

  • copepod 3 facts

    Minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax...

  • barnacle 2 facts

    Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as...

  • stomatopod 1 facts

    A kind of crustacean.

  • seed shrimp 0 facts

    Tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve...

  • brachyuran 0 facts

    Typical crabs.

  • claw 0 facts

    A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods.

  • green gland 0 facts

    One of a pair of glands (believed to have excretory functions) in some crustaceans near...