Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
info
Chapter:
4-440.00.00
Crustacea
Zoology: crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles; 67000 species; exoskeleton, they moult to grow; biramous, two-parted, limbs; nauplius form of the larvae; free-living aquatic animals, some are terrestrial (e.g. woodlice), some are parasitic (e.g. Rhizocephala, fish lice, tongue worms) and some are sessile (e.g. barnacles).
Orders
Branchiopoda
Phyllopoda
Sarsostraca
Remipedia
Cephalocarida
Maxillopoda
Thecostraca
Tantulocarida
Branchiura
Pentastomida
Mystacocarida
Copepoda
Ostracoda
Myodocopa
Podocopa
Malacostraca
Phyllocarida
Hoplocarida
Eumalacostraca