Definition of Malacostracan. Meaning of Malacostracan. Synonyms of Malacostracan

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Definition of Malacostracan

Malacostracan
Malacostracan Mal`a*cos"tra*can, n. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Malacostraca.

Meaning of Malacostracan from wikipedia

- about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crabs, lobsters...
- Amphipoda (/æmˈfɪpədə/) is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods (/ˈæmfɪpɒdz/)...
- DOI inactive as of December 2024 (link) Clark, N. D. L. (2024). "New malacostracan crustaceans from the Lower Coal Measures (Langsettian, Carboniferous)...
- Bauplan of a malacostracan; the cephalothorax is the region including cephalon and thorax, marked in yellow....
- amber by García-Villafuerte (2018). Redescription of the Ordovician malacostracan Wuningia multisegmenlata is published by Lin (2018). A member of the...
- Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida. Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence...
- 2025 in arthropod paleontology is a list of new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, trilobites, and other arthropods (except insects...
- Stygiomysida is a small order of malacostracan crustaceans in the superorder Peracarida. It has traditionally been considered part of the order Mysida...
- Schweitzer Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian)  United States ( Alabama) A malacostracan of uncertain affinities. Austropotamobius plenicari Sp. nov Valid Gašparič...
- archived copy as title (link) Conlan, Kathleen E.; Bousfield, Edward. "Malacostracan | crustacean". www.britannica.com. "ITIS Standard Report Page: Hexapoda"...