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Definitions of crustacean in various dictionaries:
noun - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
adj - of or belonging to the class Crustacea
Of or belonging to the Crustacea.
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The spider crab |
Krill |
From the Latin for "having a shell", it's the subphylum to which all prawns belong |
Barnacles were once classified as mollusks but now are included in this class along with crayfish |
Animal subphylum of chiefly aquatic arthropods covered by a hard shell |
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an arthropod of the large, mainly aquatic group Crustacea, such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, or barnacle. |
Any of various predominantly aquatic arthropods of the class Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and barnacles, characteristically having a segmented body, a chitinous exoskeleton, and paired, jointed limbs. |
Of or belonging to the Crustacea. |
An arthropod of the large, mainly aquatic group Crustacea, such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, or barnacle. |
Relating to or denoting crustaceans. |
any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
of or belonging to the class Crustacea |
any of various types of animal that live in water and have a hard outer shell |
any of various types of animals that live in water and have a hard outer shell and many legs: |
Crustacean description |
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Crustaceans (Crustacea ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles. * The crustacean group is usually treated as a subphylum, and thanks to recent molecular studies it is now well accepted that the crustacean group is paraphyletic, and comprises all animals in the Pancrustacea clade other than hexapods. Some crustaceans are more closely related to insects and other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans. * The 67,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at 0.1 mm (0.004 in), to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to 3.8 m (12.5 ft) and a mass of 20 kg (44 lb). Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by their larval forms, such as the nauplius stage of |