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/)...
- Lobsters are malacostracans decapod crustaceans of the family Nephropidae or its synonym Homaridae. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live...
- amber by García-Villafuerte (2018). Redescription of the Ordovician malacostracan Wuningia multisegmenlata is published by Lin (2018). A member of the...
- 2025 in arthropod paleontology is a list of new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, trilobites, and other arthropods (except insects...
- abdomen with no uropods. This group is believed to be the most primitive malacostracan group, because they lack some of the caridoid facies, such as the presence...
- Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida. Their common name opossum shrimps stems from the presence...
- In this malacostracan crustacean diagram, the maxillae are labelled maxilla and maxillula....
- list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean...
-   Extinct in the wild (EW): 2 species   Critically endangered (CR): 393 species   Endangered (EN): 626 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,081 species   Near...