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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 steroid hormones are produced by the crustacean Y-organs and the insect prothoracic glands.
In some crustacean groups appendages have large, flattened exopods, endopods, epipodites, and endites.
These differences in number of segments and function of appendages are used to distinguish between crustacean groups.
Previous studies suggest that the site of decapod crustacean vitellogenin synthesis is the ovary, the hepatopancreas or both.
Don Hoi Lord's namesake crustacean is about four centimetres long and looks like a section of bamboo shoot.
Detailed work on a series of isolated crustacean limb muscle preparations showed a consistent pattern of innervation among decapod crustaceans.

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