class crustacea

1. Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters;
   Crabs;
   Shrimps;
   Woodlice;
   Barnacles;
   Decapods;
   Water fleas (synset 101977040)
   is a type of: class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders
   member holonym:

   • crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
   • 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
   • order stomatopoda, stomatopoda - mantis shrimps
   • entomostraca, subclass entomostraca - in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use
   • branchiopoda, subclass branchiopoda - primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas
   • copepoda, subclass copepoda - minute planktonic or parasitic crustaceans
   • ostracoda, subclass ostracoda - seed shrimps
   • cirripedia, subclass cirripedia - barnacles
   belongs to: arthropoda, phylum arthropoda - jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
   same as: crustacea

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