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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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"Crustacea" Quotes from Famous Books

... ever to be seen by a human eye, yet large enough to be the very breath of life to thousands and thousands of creatures. Some of them found their way to the gills of the brook trout, and some to the minnows, and the herrings, and the suckers, and the star-gazers; some fed the little crustacea, and the insect larvae, and the other tiny water animals that make up the lower classes of society; and some passed undetained down the river and out into Lake Superior. But there were others that ...

— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert

... bill just alluded to is mentioned as characteristic of the Phalaropes, though I did not observe it, and is thought to be a snapping-up of minute Crustacea. But in the case of the Black Guillemot, I question if this be its true explanation. The bird makes this movement only when on the alert. Several of them are frolicking together; you show yourself, and instantly ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various

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