Crustacea

See also: crustacea and crustácea

Translingual

selected Crustacea

Etymology

From Latin crusta (“shell”) +‎ -acea.

Proper noun

Crustacea

1. (paraphyletic, sometimes proscribed) A taxonomic subphylum within the phylum Arthropoda – crustaceans.

Hypernyms

• (subphylum): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum

Hyponyms

• (subphylum): Branchiopoda, Cephalocarida, Malacostraca, Maxillopoda, Ostracoda, Remipedia - classes

References

• Crustacea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crustacea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Crustacea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI