What is a crustacean?

What is a crustacean? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any arthropod of the subphylum Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, barnacles and woodlice.
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These differences in number of segments and function of appendages are used to distinguish between crustacean groups.
A feature of chromatin diminution in the crustacean genus Cyclops is that the somatic and germline chromosome number remains the same.
Detailed work on a series of isolated crustacean limb muscle preparations showed a consistent pattern of innervation among decapod crustaceans.
Positive effects of juvenoids on crustacean metamorphosis were also encountered in barnacles early on.
With a center core, the darker core areas appear like fish egg vitellus and crustacean inner organs.
In some crustacean groups appendages have large, flattened exopods, endopods, epipodites, and endites.

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