Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders...
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decapods (lit. 'ten-footed') are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns. Most decapods...
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specialised as pereiopods (walking legs) and maxillipeds (feeding legs). Malacostraca and Remipedia (and the hexapods) have abdominal appendages. All other...
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Phylogeny of Malacostraca is the evolutionary relationships of the largest of the six classes of crustaceans, containing about 40,000 living species, divided...
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Insecta: Sandfly Chigoe flea Tunga penetrans Crustacea of the class Malacostraca: Talitridae Emerita (crustacean), also known as mole crab Culicoides...
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crustaceans") — Branchiopoda, Copepoda, Malacostraca, Thecostraca; Multicrustacea ("numerous crustaceans") — Copepoda, Malacostraca, Thecostraca; Communostraca ("common...
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Eucarida (category Malacostraca)
Eucarida is a superorder of the Malacostraca, a class of the crustacean subphylum, comprising the decapods, krill, and Angustidontida. They are characterised...
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Crustacean larva (section Malacostraca)
crab. The zoea stage (plural: zoeas or zoeae), only found in members of Malacostraca, is characterised by the use of the thoracic appendages for swimming...
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100 micrometres (0.0039 in) long. The largest are species in the class Malacostraca, with the legs of the Japanese spider crab potentially spanning up to...
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Branchiura (fish lice) Mystacocarida Copepoda Ostracoda (seed shrimp) Malacostraca (crabs, lobsters, crayfish, krill, various shrimp, woodlice, and kin)...
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shrimps) Mystacocarida Pentastomida (tongue worms) Branchiura (fish lice) Malacostraca (woodlice, shrimps, crayfish, lobsters, crabs) Thecostraca (barnacles...
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shrimp and others. The largest branch of multicrustacea is the class Malacostraca (see below). Superclass Multicrustacea Regier, Shultz, Zwick, Hussey...
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predicted estimates. Poore, Hugh F. (2002). "Introduction". Crustacea: Malacostraca. Zoological catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. CSIRO Publishing. pp...
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(podós) 'foot'). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago. Mantis shrimp typically grow to around...
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shrimps) Mystacocarida Pentastomida (tongue worms) Branchiura (fish lice) Malacostraca (woodlice, shrimps, crayfish, lobsters, crabs) Thecostraca (barnacles...
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shrimps) Mystacocarida Pentastomida (tongue worms) Branchiura (fish lice) Malacostraca (woodlice, shrimps, crayfish, lobsters, crabs) Thecostraca (barnacles...
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Crustacea. The most familiar and largest group of crustaceans, the class Malacostraca, includes the superorder Eucarida comprising the three orders, Euphausiacea...
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Tanaidacea (known as tanaids) make up a minor group within the class Malacostraca. There are about 940 species in this order. Tanaids are small, shrimp-like...
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Scholtz, Gerhard (November 2020). "Eocarcinus praecursor Withers, 1932 (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Meiura) is a stem group brachyuran". Arthropod Structure &...
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classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Isopoda Suborder: Oniscidea Latreille 1802 Sections Diplocheta...
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groups, allowing its position to be used as a "segmental marker". In Malacostraca, it is on the sixth thoracic segment; in Symphyla, it is on the fourth...
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Scholtz, Gerhard (November 2020). "Eocarcinus praecursor Withers, 1932 (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Meiura) is a stem group brachyuran". Arthropod Structure &...
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Indiana Dunes National Park is a National Park Service unit on the shore of Lake Michigan in Indiana, United States. A BioBlitz took place there on May...
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classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Infraorder: Brachyura Family: Dorippidae...
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Alimentary Tract in the Freshwater Shrimp Neocaridina heteropoda (Crustacea, Malacostraca)". PLOS ONE. 10 (5): e0126900. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1026900S. doi:10.1371/journal...
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believed to represent the most primitive members of their class, the Malacostraca, and first appear in the fossil record during the Cambrian period. Leptostracans...
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lobster-like decapod, Palaeopalaemon newberryi Whitfield, 1880 (Decapoda: Malacostraca)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 38 (3): 302–314. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruy022...
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classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Superfamily: Nephropoidea Family:...
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Arthropods are invertebrate animals having an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and paired jointed appendages. Arthropods form the phylum Arthropoda. They...
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Pentacheles is a genus of crustaceans of the class Malacostraca. Pentacheles gibbus Alcock, 1894 Pentacheles laevis Bate, 1878 Pentacheles obscurus Bate...
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