Larval and adult prawns Crustaceans may pass through a number of larval and immature stages between hatching from their eggs and reaching their adult...

A larva (/ˈlɑːrvə/; pl.: larvae /ˈlɑːrviː/) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage. Animals...

Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are a part...

Atlantic. It is a marine copepod which starts life as a small pelagic crustacean larva. It is among the largest of copepods, ranging in size from 2 to 3 millimetres...

Lernaeocera branchialis, starts life as a copepod, a small, free-swimming crustacean larva. The first host used by cod worm is a flatfish or lumpsucker, which...

calcareous shells, but the Rhizocephala are specialized parasites of other crustaceans, with reduced bodies. Barnacles have existed since at least the mid-Carboniferous...

are sometimes contrasted with entomostracans, a name applied to all crustaceans outside the Malacostraca, and named after the obsolete taxon Entomostraca...

400 species. Together with other similar-sized non-copepod fresh-water crustaceans, especially cladocera, they are commonly called water fleas. The name...

micrometres (0.0033 in). The tantulocarid life cycle is unique among crustaceans. The tantulus larva transforms directly from a non-feeding (lecithotrophic) and...

animal becomes a post-larva, with a gross form resembling the adult lobster. Although it can swim, using its pleopods, the post-larva soon settles to the...

of an Argonaut Nauplia, a harbor town in Greece Nauplius (larva), a life stage of crustaceans Nauplius (plant), a genus in the family Asteraceae Nauplius...

The post-zoeal larva, often called a decapodid, resembles a miniature adult, but retains some larval characteristics. The decapodid larva will metamorphose...

described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and other fossil arthropods of every kind that were described...

able to swim, and finds another host crustacean, where the larva in her develops. The female dies, and the larva escapes, spawning another feeding stage...

vertebrate tongue; molecular studies point to them being highly-derived crustaceans. About 130 species of pentastomids are known; all are obligate parasites...

on the variation of mortality rates during the planktonic period. Larva Crustacean larvae "Paralarvae". Larval Images: Larval forms diverse and beautiful...

Facetotecta is a poorly known subclass of thecostracan crustaceans. The adult forms have never been recognised, and the group is known only from its larvae...

known to affect people who have crustacean/shellfish allergies due to similar biochemistry because insects and crustaceans are related to each other, both...

known from a single specimen. Sandtorpia is known from a single "head larva" specimen, closely matching with the fifth stage of Henningsmoenicaris,...

For example, Diphyllobothrium has at least two intermediate hosts, a crustacean and then one or more freshwater fish; its definitive host is a mammal...

a mass of over 20 kilograms (44 lb), making it not only the heaviest crustacean in the world, but also the heaviest of all living arthropod species. Its...

Gnathostomiasis, also known as larva migrans profundus,: 436  is the human infection caused by the nematode Gnathostoma spinigerum and/or Gnathostoma...

typical protonymphon larva, the encysted larva, the atypical protonymphon larva, and the attaching larva. The typical protonymphon larva is most common, is...

the hairy seaweed crab, is a spider crab of the family Majidae. This crustacean has a hard rounded-triangular shell, or carapace, that is covered in hair-like...

yolk remains A 2.7mm long larva of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, Boxfish larva CalCOFI Continuous Plankton Recorder Crustacean larvae Egg case Embryo LarvalBase...

kikuchii Shimomura & Akiyama 2008 These are hermaphroditic and pigmentless crustaceans with an elongated and translucent body that measures 2 to 4 mm (0.079...

Triops: a genus of small crustaceans in the order Notostraca (tadpole shrimp) Mexican jumping bean: seed pods inhabited by the larva of the moth Cydia saltitans...

lobsters are a family (Scyllaridae) of about 90 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda clade Reptantia, found in all warm oceans and seas....

The Achelata is an infra-order of the decapod crustaceans, holding the spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and their fossil relatives. The name "Achelata"...

Clam shrimp are a group of bivalved branchiopod crustaceans that resemble the unrelated bivalved molluscs. They are extant and also known from the fossil...