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crustaceans
/kɹəˈsteɪʃənz/
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What does crustaceans mean?
noun
- plural of crustacean
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With crustaceans not only many trivial, but some important parts assume a new character, as recorded by Fritz Müller, after maturity.
Unfortunately the habits of crustaceans are very imperfectly known, and we cannot explain the uses of many structures peculiar to one sex.
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Small crustaceans were plentiful on the surface, but they were if anything more numerous at depths of fifty to one hundred fathoms.
In some cases, however, the mature animal is generally considered as lower in the scale than the larva, as with certain parasitic crustaceans.
The mechanism and the conditions for the change in colouration were made clear through the beautiful investigations of Keeble and Gamble, on the colour-change in crustaceans.