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Crustacea

Crustacea

a large class of arthropods including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, wood lice, water fleas, and barnacles.


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Alpha Taxonomy

Hey everyone. I'm having a bit of trouble here. My school science book states that the shrimp is a member of the class crustacea, implying that crustacea is a class. Wikipedia states that the shrimp belongs in the class malocostraca. It says that crustacea is a subphylum and not an ...

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by Condraz23
Sat Jul 15, 2006 3:27 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Alpha Taxonomy
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Views: 523

Most abundant class of animals

... described species, no other class comes even close to the insects. The two distant runner-up classes are the Gastropoda, or the snails, and the Crustacea, the crabs and their relatives. They each have about 40 to 50 thousand species. The mammals, on the other hand, have fewer species than do ...

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by kiekyon
Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:14 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Most abundant class of animals
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Views: 3344

Moluscus and Arthropods

... include subphylum trilobita subphylum chelicerata class merostomata-horseshoe crabs class arachnida - spiders,scorpions,ect. subphylum crustacea-crabs,shrimp,lobster subphylum uniramia class chilopoda-centipede class diplopoda-millipede class insecta - insects Phylum mollusca include... ...

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by PetaPal
Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:12 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Moluscus and Arthropods
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Views: 5980

STARFISH PHYLUM AND CLASS PLEase

... belongs to the phylum echinodermata, subphylum asterozoa, class asteroidea. Crayfish belongs to the phylum arthropoda, subphylum branchiata, class crustacea, tarantula is the member of the phylum arthropoda, subphylum chelicerata, class aranoidea and bee belongs to the same phylum as tarantula ...

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by pedro21101
Wed May 18, 2005 7:39 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: STARFISH PHYLUM AND CLASS PLEase
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classification help

... Arachnida, Order Scorpiones Newt: Phylum chordata, class lissamphibia, order caudata, family salamandridae Lobster: Phylum Arthropoda, subphylum crustacea, class malacostraca, order decapoda, suborder pleocyemata, infaorder astacidea, family nephropidae coral: phylum cnidaria, class anthozoa ...

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by abstemious_entity
Thu May 05, 2005 4:40 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: classification help
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Views: 20021


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