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Crustacea

NOUN
  1. class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas

How To Use Crustacea In A Sentence

  • It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
  • The search for the rootstock of the decapod Crustacea has resulted in the discovery of numerous Paleozoic organisms that bear some similarity to Mesozoic and Cenozoic shrimp, lobsters, and crabs.
  • In the cephalopoda (as also in the crustacea) the same passage serves to void the excrement and leads to the part like a uterus, for the male discharges the seminal fluid through this passage. On the Generation of Animals
  • The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as scavengers and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent.
  • Epizoic barnacles are sessile, marine crustaceans and constitute a model system featuring the above conditions.
  • More problematic are the relationships of the four major groups, hexapods (including insects), crustaceans, myriapods (including centipedes and millipedes), and chelicerates (including spiders).
  • To speak generally, if we take all animals which change their locality, some by swimming, others by flying, others by walking, we find in these the two sexes, not only in the sanguinea but also in some of the bloodless animals; and this applies in the case of the latter sometimes to the whole class, as the cephalopoda and crustacea, but in the class of insects only to the majority. On the Generation of Animals
  • The focus of this paper is on the Crustacea, the class of Arthropoda that expresses both hemoglobin and hemocyanin.
  • In addition to fish, Pterois volitans feed on invertebrates such as amphipods, isopods, and other crustaceans.
  • These creatures are quite distinct from fish, crustaceans, and molluscs.
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