crustacean
甲壳类动物,甲壳动物,甲壳纲动物,甲壳动物类
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- : any chiefly aquatic arthropod of the class Crustacea, typically having the body covered with a hard shell or crust, including the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, barnacles, and wood lice.
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- : belonging or pertaining to the crustaceans.
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The global patchwork of protected areas they propose is big enough to preserve the 28,594 species of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, dragonflies and crustaceans for which the researchers have data.
If you’ve ever dined on tasty crab, lobster or shrimp, you’ve eaten a crustacean.
Scientists have been finding these plastic bits in all kinds of animals, from tiny crustaceans to birds and whales.
When hauled up, the sides close from the top, catching crustaceans inside.
Octopuses, which prey on crustaceans, worms and mollusks, bob in and out of the bones.
Here are four secrets to bring your crustacean habit to a new level.
Another edible crustacean of considerable economic importance is the blue crab.
A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
He replied that it was only a familiar species of phyllopodous crustacean, known as Eubranchipus vernalis.
In form it suggested a huge crab, though it was not very much like any crustacean I had ever seen.
The eye of a crustacean is a very complicated structure, commonly described as a compound eye.