crustacean
crustaceans
A crustacean is a member of a class of arthropods that live in water. Some of your favorite seafood comes from crustaceans — crabs, lobsters, and shrimp.
There are plenty of fish in the sea, and there are also plenty of crustaceans: strange-looking aquatic critters who usually have at least four pairs of limbs, plus a segmented body and a chitinous exoskeleton. If you think of a crust as being a little like a shell, that can help you remember crustaceans are essentially critters that have shells. Our word crust is from Latin crusta (shell or crust).
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any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
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types:
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malacostracan crustacean
a major subclass of crustaceans
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decapod, decapod crustacean
crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
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brachyuran
typical crabs
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stomatopod, stomatopod crustacean
a kind of crustacean
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branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan
aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
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copepod, copepod crustacean
minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
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mussel shrimp, ostracod, seed shrimp
tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
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barnacle, cirriped, cirripede
marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
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crab
decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
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lobster
any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
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crawdad, crawdaddy, crawfish, crayfish
small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
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hermit crab
small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
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shrimp
small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
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prawn
shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
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tropical prawn
edible tropical and warm-water prawn
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krill
shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
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opossum shrimp
shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs
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mantis crab, mantis shrimp
tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
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isopod
any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling
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amphipod
a kind of malacostracan crustacean
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daphnia, water flea
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
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fairy shrimp
small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back
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Artemia salina, brine shrimp
common to saline lakes
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tadpole shrimp
a kind of branchiopod crustacean
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brit, britt
minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
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cyclops, water flea
minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
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fish louse
a kind of copepod
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Balanus balanoides, acorn barnacle, rock barnacle
barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
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Lepas fascicularis, goose barnacle, gooseneck barnacle
stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
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type of:
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arthropod
invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin
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of or belonging to the class Crustacea
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synonyms:
crustaceous
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