Sentence examples for the crustacea from inspiring English sources

You're wrestling with the crustacea and likely to spray your neighbour with bits of shell and sauce.

The most terrestrial of the Crustacea are the wood lice (order Isopoda, family Oniscoidea); most live in damp places, although a few isopod species can survive in deserts.

The Crustacea as a whole shows great variation in the number of somites and the amount of fusion that has taken place.

Because there are many exceptions to the basic features, however, a satisfactory inclusive definition of all the Crustacea is extraordinarily hard to frame.

Characteristic differences in structure or behaviour between the sexes are widespread in the Crustacea and can be extreme; the males of some groups may be so small that they are difficult to find on the much larger female.

The critter is the mantis shrimp, and it's not actually a shrimp; it fits into "the Crustacea phylum in the class Malacostraca, subclass Hoplocarida (which means armed shrimp), and order Stomatopoda," according to an authoritative-looking Web page.

With a few exceptions, barnacles are the only hermaphroditic members of the class Crustacea in the phylum Arthropoda.

Shellfish, any aquatic invertebrate animal having a shell and belonging to the phylum Mollusca, the class Crustacea (phylum Arthropoda), or the phylum Echinodermata.

Two specimens of Speleonectes tulumensis came from the Cenote Crustacea on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

Two individuals of Speleonectes tulumensis (Speleonectidae) were collected in the Cenote Crustacea on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

We have employed DNA barcoding to study the diversity of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) in a wide variety of freshwater habitats and to determine the likely origins of the Churchill fauna following the last glaciation.