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Crustacean

Crustaceans (from Latin word "crustacea" meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are mandibulate arthropods that are traditionally a part of the paraphyletic subphylum Crustacea (/krəˈsteɪʃə/). Crustaceans are mainly aquatic, including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters, and crayfish), seed shrimps, branchiopods, fish lice, krill…

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Crustacean

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Crustacean

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related to Fossil record · 35
Crustacean → Aeschronectida, Astacidea, Axiidea, Branchiopoda, Camborygma, Cambrian, Canadaspidida, Carboniferous, Cephalocarida, Crustaceans, Cumacea, Decapoda, Gebiidea, Hoplocarida, In, Isopoda, Jurassic, Leptostraca, Malacostraca, Maxillopoda
related to External links · 25
Crustacean → Archived, Archived October, Biodiversity Explorer, Clark, Crustacea, EdinburghCrustaceans, Encyclopedia Americana, Ernest, Hubert Lyman, Ingersoll, Life Web ProjectThe Crustacean, Los Angeles CountyCrustacea, Natural History Museum, New International Encyclopedia, SingaporeCrustacea, Society Archived, Texts, Tree, University, Vol
related to Sources · 19
Crustacean → An, Bibcode, Crustaceans, Ethology, Frederick, Geoffrey, Goymann, Hill, ISBN, ISSN, March, Matthew, Oxford University Press, Powers, Ryan, Schram, Tigriopus, Weaver, Wolfgang
related to Ecology · 15
Crustacean → Antarctic, Asian, Chinese, Cymothoa, Eriocheir, Hemigrapsus, Indo-Pacific, Krill, Marine, Mediterranean, Most, Red Sea, Since, Some, Suez Canal
related to Classification and phylogeny · 13
Crustacean → Although, Aptera, Carl Linnaeus, Crustacea, Despite, Fundamenta, Guillaume Rondelet, Japanese, Morten Thrane Brünnich's Zoologiæ, Pierre Belon, Systema Naturae, Tantulacus, The
related to DNA repair · 8
Crustacean → Another, DNA, In, Penaeus, Repair, The, This, Tigriopus
related to Larvae · 7
Crustacean → As, Crustaceans, In, It, Providing, This, Zoea
related to Mating system · 7
Crustacean → Cephalocarida, In, Marmorkrebs, Most, Parthenogenesis, Some, This
related to Anatomy · 6
Crustacean → All, Each, Malacostraca, Remipedia, The, Various
related to Consumption by humans · 5
Crustacean → Asia, China, Many, Non-decapod, Over

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crustaceans crustacea shrimp groups barnacles may prawns krill malacostraca eggs copepods appendages many classes crabs species also including cephalocarida remipedia

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Crustaceanrelated to AnatomyThe0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to AnatomyVarious0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to AnatomyEach0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to AnatomyMalacostraca0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to AnatomyRemipedia0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to AnatomyAll0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to Classification and phylogenyThe0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to Classification and phylogenyPierre Belon0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to Classification and phylogenyGuillaume Rondelet0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to Classification and phylogenyCarl Linnaeus0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to Classification and phylogenyAptera0.60section
Crustaceanrelated to Classification and phylogenySystema Naturae0.60section

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