English > Crustacea: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water ... / water fleas. |
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| Synonym | class 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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| Adjectives | crustaceous, crustacean | of or belonging to the class Crustacea |
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