English > class Crustacea: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water ... / water fleas. |
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Synonym | Crustacea |
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Member of | Arthropoda, phylum Arthropoda | jointed-foot invertebrates |
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Members | Branchiopoda, subclass Branchiopoda | Primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans |
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Cirripedia, subclass Cirripedia | barnacles |
Copepoda, subclass Copepoda | minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans |
Entomostraca, subclass Entomostraca | In some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia |
Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca | largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial / terrestrial crustaceans |
Ostracoda, subclass Ostracoda | seed shrimps |
Stomatopoda, order Stomatopoda | mantis shrimps |
crustacean | Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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Spanish | crustáceos |
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Catalan | Crustacea |
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