Crustacea

See also: crustacea and crustácea

Translingual

selected Crustacea

Etymology

From Latin crusta (“shell”) +‎ -acea.

Proper noun

Crustacea

A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Arthropoda – crustaceans.

Hypernyms

(subphylum): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum

Hyponyms

(subphylum): Branchiopoda, Cephalocarida, Malacostraca, Maxillopoda, Ostracoda, Remipedia - classes

References

Crustacea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Crustacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Crustacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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