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- Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca
- largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies
- malacostracan crustacean
- a major subclass of crustaceans
- Decapoda, order Decapoda
- lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns
- decapod crustacean, decapod
- crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
- Brachyura, suborder Brachyura
- an order of crustaceans (including true crabs) having a reduced abdomen folded against the ventral surface
- stone crab, Menippe mercenaria
- large edible crab of S coat of United States especially Florida
- brachyuran
- typical crabs
- crab
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- Menippe, genus Menippe
- stone crabs
- hard-shell crab
- edible crab that has not recently molted and so has a hard shell
- Cancridae, family Cancridae
- many of the best known edible crabs
- Cancer, genus Cancer
- type genus of the family Cancridae
- soft-shell crab, soft-shelled crab
- edible crab that has recently molted and not yet formed its new shell
- rock crab, Cancer irroratus
- crab of eastern coast of North America
- Dungeness crab, Cancer magister
- small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America
- Jonah crab, Cancer borealis
- large red deep-water crab of the eastern coast of North America
- swimming crab
- marine crab with some legs flattened and fringed for swimming
- Portunidae, family Portunidae
- swimming crabs
- American lady crab, lady crab, calico crab, Ovalipes ocellatus
- brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the United States Atlantic coast
- Portunus, genus Portunus
- type genus of the family Portunidae
- English lady crab, Portunus puber
- crab of the English coasts
- Ovalipes, genus Ovalipes
- a genus of Portunidae
- blue crab, Callinectes sapidus
- bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America
- Callinectes, genus Callinectes
- New World blue crabs
- fiddler crab
- burrowing crab of American coastal regions having one claw much enlarged in the male
- Uca, genus Uca
- fiddler crabs
- king crab, Alaska crab, Alaskan king crab, Alaska king crab, Paralithodes camtschatica
- large edible crab of North Pacific waters esp. along the coasts of Alaska and Japan
- Pinnotheridae, family Pinnotheridae
- tiny soft-bodied crabs
- Pinnotheres, genus Pinnotheres
- type genus of the family Pinnotheridae: pea crabs
- pea crab
- tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks
- oyster crab, Pinnotheres ostreum
- tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters
- Lithodidae, family Lithodidae
- deep-sea crabs of cold waters
- Paralithodes, genus Paralithodes
- a genus of Lithodidae
- spider crab
- any of numerous crabs with very long legs and small triangular bodies
- Majidae, family Majidae
- spider crabs
- true lobster
- large edible marine crustaceans having large pincers on the first pair of legs
- Maja, genus Maja, Maia, genus Maia
- type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan
- European spider crab, king crab, Maja squinado
- large European spider crab
- Macrocheira, genus Macrocheira
- giant crabs of Japan
- giant crab, Macrocheira kaempferi
- very large deep-water Japanese crab
- Reptantia, suborder Reptantia
- lobsters; crabs
- lobster
- any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
- Homaridae, family Homaridae
- large-clawed lobsters
- American lobster, Northern lobster, Maine lobster, Homarus americanus
- lobster of Atlantic coast of America
- Homarus, genus Homarus
- type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters
- Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus
- edible European lobster resembling the American lobster but slenderer
- European lobster, Homarus vulgaris
- lobster of Atlantic coast of Europe
- Cape lobster, Homarus capensis
- small lobster of southern Africa
- Nephropsidae, family Nephropsidae
- in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae
- Nephrops, genus Nephrops
- a genus of Nephropsidae
- Palinurus, genus Palinurus
- type genus of the family Palinuridae
- Palinuridae, family Palinuridae
- spiny lobsters
- spiny lobster, langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish
- large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- Old World crayfish, ecrevisse
- small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America
- Astacidae, family Astacidae, Astacura
- crayfish
- crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, crawdaddy
- small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster
- Astacus, genus Astacus
- type genus of the family Astacidae; Old World crayfish
- American crayfish
- common large crayfishes of eastern North America
- Cambarus, genus Cambarus
- a genus of Astacidae
- Crangon, genus Crangon
- type genus of the family Crangonidae
- Paguridae, family Paguridae
- hermit crabs
- Pagurus, genus Pagurus
- type genus of the family Paguridae
- hermit crab
- small soft-bodied marine crustaceans living in cast-off shells of gastropods
- Natantia, suborder Natantia
- shrimp; prawns; etc.
- Crangonidae, family Crangonidae
- shrimps
- shrimp
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- snapping shrimp, pistol shrimp
- small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae
- Palaemon, genus Palaemon
- type genus of the family Palaemonidae; widely distributed genus
- Palaemonidae, family Palaemonidae
- prawns
- prawn
- shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible
- long-clawed prawn, river prawn, Palaemon australis
- large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers
- tropical prawn
- edible tropical and warm-water prawn
- Peneidae, family Peneidae
- tropical prawns
- Peneus, genus Peneus
- type genus of the family Peneidae
- Schizopoda
- in former classifications a division of Malacostraca; superseded by the orders Mysidacea and Euphausiacea
- Euphausiacea, order Euphausiacea
- small commonly luminescent crustaceans; important element of marine plankton: krill
- mantis shrimp, mantis crab
- tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages
- krill
- shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
- Euphausia pacifica
- food for jellyfish
- Mysidacea, order Mysidacea
- opossum shrimp
- Mysidae, family Mysidae
- small shrimp-like crustaceans
- Mysis, genus Mysis
- type genus of the family Mysidae
- Praunus, genus Praunus
- a genus of Mysidae
- opossum shrimp
- shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs
- Stomatopoda, order Stomatopoda
- mantis shrimps
- stomatopod, stomatopod crustacean
- a kind of crustacean
- Squillidae, family Squillidae
- crustaceans that burrow in mud or under stones in shallow water along the seashore
- isopod
- any of various small terrestrial or aquatic crustaceans with seven pairs of legs adapted for crawling
- genus Squilla
- type genus of the family Squillidae
- squilla, mantis prawn
- a kind of mantis shrimp
- Isopoda, order Isopoda
- woodlice
- woodlouse, slater
- any of various small terrestrial isopods having a flat elliptical segmented body; found in damp habitats
- pill bug
- small terrestrial isopod with a convex segmented body that can roll up into a ball
- Armadillidiidae, family Armadillidiidae
- pill bugs
- Armadillidium, genus Armadillidium
- type genus of the Armadillidiidae
- Oniscus, genus Oniscus
- type genus of the Oniscidae; woodlice that cannot roll into a ball
- Oniscidae, family Oniscidae
- a family of Isopoda
- Porcellio, genus Porcellio
- Old World genus of isopod crustaceans
- Porcellionidae, family Porcellionidae
- sow bugs
- Orchestia, genus Orchestia
- type genus of the family Orchestiidae
- sow bug
- terrestrial isopod having an oval segmented body (a shape like a sow)
- sea louse, sea slater
- marine isopod crustacean
- Amphipoda, order Amphipoda
- small flat-bodied semi-terrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp
- amphipod
- a kind of malacostracan crustacean
- Orchestiidae, family Orchestiidae
- beach fleas
- whale louse
- amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans
- beach flea, sand hopper, sandhopper, sand flea
- small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas; common on ocean beaches
- Caprella, genus Caprella
- skeleton shrimp
- skeleton shrimp
- small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed
- Cyamus, genus Cyamus
- whale lice
- Entomostraca, subclass Entomostraca
- in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use
- branchiopod crustacean, branchiopod, branchiopodan
- aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
- Branchiopoda, subclass Branchiopoda
- primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas
- 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
- genus Daphnia
- water fleas
- Copepoda, subclass Copepoda
- minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
- Anostraca, order Anostraca
- small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps
- Artemia, genus Artemia, Chirocephalus, genus Chirocephalus
- fairy shrimp; brine shrimp
- fairy shrimp
- small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back
- brine shrimp, Artemia salina
- common to saline lakes
- Notostraca, order Notostraca
- small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace
- Triopidae, family Triopidae
- a family of Notostraca
- Triops, genus Triops
- type genus of the family Triopidae: small crustaceans with a small third median eye
- tadpole shrimp
- a kind of branchiopod crustacean
- copepod, copepod crustacean
- minute marine or fresh-water crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
- 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
- brit, britt
- minute crustaceans forming food for right whales
- genus Cyclops
- copepod water fleas
- acorn barnacle, rock barnacle, Balanus balanoides
- barnacle that attaches to rocks esp. in intertidal zones
- Branchiura, order Branchiura
- copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes
- fish louse
- a kind of copepod
- Ostracoda, subclass Ostracoda
- seed shrimps
- seed shrimp, mussel shrimp, ostracod
- tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
- Cirripedia, subclass Cirripedia
- barnacles
- barnacle, cerriped, cerripede
- marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces
- Balanidae, family Balanidae
- stalkless barnacles
- Balanus, genus Balanus
- type genus of the family Balanidae
- goose barnacle, Lepas fascicularis
- stalked barnacle that attaches to ship bottoms or floating timbers
- Lepadidae, family Lepadidae
- goose barnacles
- Lepas, genus Lepas
- type genus of the family Lepadidae
- branchiopod, branchiopodan, branchiopodous
- of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda