malacostracan in English

noun
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a large class of crustaceans that includes crabs, shrimps, lobsters, isopods, and amphipods. They have compound eyes, which are typically on stalks.
On the whole the maxillopodan groups Ostracoda and Cirripedia and the Malacostraca have left the most significant fossil records.

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2. The Amphipods are an order of malacostracan crustaceans.They have no carapace.

3. Description: Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies

4. Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies

5. 9 words related to Amphipod: malacostracan crustacean, Amphipoda, order Amphipoda, beach flea, sand flea, sand hopper, sandhopper, skeleton shrimp, whale louse

6. Within the bounds of the common general morphology of the malacostracan stomach, an isopod type (Amphipoda, Cumacea, Tanaidacea, Isopoda) and a decapod type (Mysidacea, Euphausiacea, Decapoda) are distinguishable. These two types are connected by an intermediate type, which reveals characteristics of both (Lophogastrida).

7. Antennules of blue crabs, like those of other malacostracan crustaceans, take discrete samples of water during each flick by having a rapid downstroke, when water flows into the aesthetasc array, and a slow recovery stroke, when water is trapped in the array

8. Amphipoda definition is - a large group, usually an order, of malacostracan crustaceans (division Peracarida) comprising the beach fleas and related forms; being mostly of small size with laterally compressed body, four anterior pairs of thoracic limbs directed forward, and three posterior pairs directed backward and upward, the thoracic limbs bearing gills; being usually aquatic in fresh or