Definition of Malacostraca. Meaning of Malacostraca. Synonyms of Malacostraca

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Definition of Malacostraca

Malacostraca
Malacostraca Mal`a*cos"tra*ca, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ? soft + ? shell of a testacean.] (Zo["o]l.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.

Meaning of Malacostraca from wikipedia

- Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders...
- specialised as pereiopods (walking legs) and maxillipeds (feeding legs). Malacostraca and Remipedia (and the hexapods) have abdominal appendages. All other...
- crustaceans") — Branchiopoda, Copepoda, Malacostraca, Thecostraca; Multicrustacea ("numerous crustaceans") — Copepoda, Malacostraca, Thecostraca; Communostraca ("common...
- decapods (lit. 'ten-footed') are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns. Most decapods...
- Phylogeny of Malacostraca is the evolutionary relationships of the largest of the six classes of crustaceans, containing about 40,000 living species, divided...
- crab. The zoea stage (plural: zoeas or zoeae), only found in members of Malacostraca, is characterised by the use of the thoracic appendages for swimming...
- Eucarida is a superorder of the Malacostraca, a class of the crustacean subphylum, comprising the decapods, krill, and Angustidontida. They are characterised...
- Insecta: Sandfly Chigoe flea Tunga penetrans Crustacea of the class Malacostraca: Talitridae Emerita (crustacean), also known as mole crab Culicoides...
- 100 micrometres (0.0039 in) long. The largest are species in the class Malacostraca, with the legs of the ****anese spider crab potentially spanning up to...
- Branchiura (fish lice) Mystacocarida Copepoda Ostracoda (seed shrimp) Malacostraca (crabs, lobsters, crayfish, krill, various shrimp, woodlice, and kin)...