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Scud :: Scud (n.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.

Omostegite :: Omostegite (n.) The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

Stomate :: Stomapoda (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea including the squillas. The maxillipeds are leglike in form, and the large claws are comblike. They have a large and elongated abdomen, which contains a part of the stomach and heart; the abdominal appendages are large, and bear the gills. Called also Gastrula, Stomatopoda, and Squilloidea..

Astacus :: Astacus (n.) A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish..

Louse :: Louse (n.) Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira..

Epistome :: Epistome (n.) The region between the antennae and the mouth, in Crustacea..

Urogastric :: Urogastric (a.) Behind the stomach; -- said of two lobes of the carapace of certain crustaceans.

Homarus :: Homarus (n.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters..

Chitin :: Chitin (n.) A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin..

Hepato-pancreas :: Hepato-pancreas (n.) A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates..

Endostoma :: Endostoma (n.) A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.

Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans..

Ischiopodite :: Ischiopodite (n.) The third joint of the typical appendages of Crustacea.

Scaphognathite :: Scaphognathite (n.) A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

Holostraca :: Holostraca (n. pl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell..

Tarsus :: Tarsus (n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints.

Apus :: Apus (n.) A genus of fresh-water phyllopod crustaceans. See Phyllopod.

Interepimeral :: Interepimeral (a.) Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.

Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn..

Crustaceous :: Crustaceous (a.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean.

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