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Crustacea

noun

Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas. Synonym: class Crustacea.

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... Contributions: Essay on Classification, p. 117, where, we may be permitted to note, the word "Crustacea" is by a typographical error ...

— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 34, August, 1860 • Various

... the size of the whalebone. These whales have enormously muscular tongues, which press the water through the whalebone lamellae and thus, by a filtering process, retain the small food organisms. The food of the whalebone whales is largely the small crustacea which occur in the plankton, though some whales (humpback, fin whales, and sei whales) feed also on fish. The stomachs examined at South Georgia during December 1914, belonged to the three species, humpbacks, fin whales, and blue whales, and all contained small crustacea—Euphausiae, with a mixture ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

Words linked to "Crustacea" : crustaceous, Branchiopoda, Arthropoda, crustacean, order Stomatopoda, Cirripedia, Stomatopoda, Copepoda, subclass Ostracoda, class, subclass Branchiopoda, subclass Cirripedia, Ostracoda, Entomostraca, Malacostraca, subclass Copepoda, class Crustacea, phylum Arthropoda, subclass Malacostraca, subclass Entomostraca