Larval and adult prawns Crustaceans may pass through a number of larval and immature stages between hatching from their eggs and reaching their adult...
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barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is...
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A larva (/ˈlɑːrvə/; pl.: larvae /ˈlɑːrviː/) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage. Animals...
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Lernaeocera branchialis, starts life as a copepod, a small, free-swimming crustacean larva. The first host used by cod worm is a flatfish or lumpsucker, which...
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Barnacle (redirect from Cypris larva)
calcareous shells, but the Rhizocephala are specialized parasites of other crustaceans, with reduced bodies. Barnacles have existed since at least the mid-Carboniferous...
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Lernaeocera branchialis (category Parasitic crustaceans)
Atlantic. It is a marine copepod which starts life as a small pelagic crustacean larva. It is among the largest of copepods, ranging in size from 2 to 3 millimetres...
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Cyclops (copepod) (redirect from Cyclops (crustacean))
400 species. Together with other similar-sized non-copepod fresh-water crustaceans, especially cladocera, they are commonly called water fleas. The name...
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Malacostraca (redirect from Malacostracan crustacean)
are sometimes contrasted with entomostracans, a name applied to all crustaceans outside the Malacostraca, and named after the obsolete taxon Entomostraca...
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Homarus (category Crustaceans of the Atlantic Ocean)
animal becomes a post-larva, with a gross form resembling the adult lobster. Although it can swim, using its pleopods, the post-larva soon settles to the...
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Tantulocarida (category Parasitic crustaceans)
micrometres (0.0033 in). The tantulocarid life cycle is unique among crustaceans. The tantulus larva transforms directly from a non-feeding (lecithotrophic) and...
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