Malacostraca

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title: Malacostraca
text: Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind Insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, prawns, woodlice, amphipods, mantis shrimp, tongue-eating lice and many other less familiar animals. They are abundant in all marine environments and have colonised freshwater and terrestrial habitats. They are segmented
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description: Largest class of crustaceans
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacostraca
date created: 2004-01-13T20:48:14Z
date modified: 2024-09-09T12:59:30Z
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