Definition of Malacostracans. Meaning of Malacostracans. Synonyms of Malacostracans

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Definition of Malacostracans

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

Meaning of Malacostracans 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...
- list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean...
- Lobsters are malacostracans decapod crustaceans of the family Nephropidae or its synonym Homaridae. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live...
- 2025 in arthropod paleontology is a list of new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, trilobites, and other arthropods (except insects...
- 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)...
- shrimp, krill, woodlice, and many others. There are 125 malacostracan species and one malacostracan subspecies ****essed as critically endangered. Bermudamysis...
- Eumalacostraca is a subclass of crustaceans, containing almost all living malacostracans, or about 40,000 described species. The remaining subclasses are the...
- millipedes and centipedes), Pancrustacea (oligostracans, copepods, malacostracans, branchiopods, hexapods, etc.), and the extinct Trilobita – have heads...
- 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...