Typical Crustaceans

Multicrustacea

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Multicrustacea (Typical Crustaceans) is a superclass of arthropods. There are 53434 species of Typical Crustaceans, in 8049 genera and 937 families. It includes groups like Copepods and Malacostracans.

EOL has data for 3 attributes, including:

supporting structures and enclosures
- URI: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/SupportingStructuresEnclosures
- Definition: Hard framework, internal or external, which supports and protects softer parts of plant, animal or unicellular organism, and to which muscles usually attach in animals, includes skeletons (derived from Lawrence, 2005).
- Attribution: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/wiki/Traits:SupportingStructuresEnclosures Lawrence, E. (ed.) (2005) Henderson's dictionary of Biology (13th edition). London, United Kingdom: Pearson Education Limited.
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exoskeleton
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0006611
- Definition: Exoskeleton or shell, including those of mollusks, turtles, insects and crustaceans
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visual system
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104
- Definition: The sensory system subserving the sense of vision.
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compound eyes
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000018
- Definition: A light sensing organ composed of multiple ommatidia, visual units consisting of a limited number of rhabdomeric photoreceptor cells, cornea-secreting epithelial cells, interommatidial pigment cells, and sometimes crystalline cone cells
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Typical Crustacean Habitats

The environments in which many typical crustaceans species are known to live. Select an environment to see its typical crustaceans species checklist.

typical crustaceans Habitats

The environments in which many typical crustaceans species are known to live. Select an environment to see its typical crustaceans species checklist.

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