Crustacea

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Definition of Crustacea, crustaceans:
subphylum of arthropods, considered as a class in older classifications. They are mainly aquatic, gill-breathing animals, such as crabs, lobsters and shrimps. The body is divided into a head bearing five pairs of appendages (two pairs of pre-oral sensory feelers and three pairs of post-oral feeding appendages) and a trunk and abdomen bearing a variable number of often biramous appendages wich serve as walking legs and gills. Crustacea often have a hard carapace of shell.[1]
This is the common definition for Crustacea, crustaceans, other definitions can be discussed in the article

References

  1. Lawrence, E. (2005). Henderson’s dictionary of biology. Pearson Education Limited, 13th ed., Harlow. 748 p.