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Definition of Class crustacea
1. Noun. Class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas.
Group relationships: Arthropoda, Phylum Arthropoda
Member holonyms: Crustacean, Malacostraca, Subclass Malacostraca, Order Stomatopoda, Stomatopoda, Entomostraca, Subclass Entomostraca, Branchiopoda, Subclass Branchiopoda, Copepoda, Subclass Copepoda, Ostracoda, Subclass Ostracoda, Cirripedia, Subclass Cirripedia
Generic synonyms: Class
Derivative terms: Crustaceous
Literary usage of Class crustacea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"class crustacea The Crustaceans Fig. 7.—A cray-fish. The members of this class
are aquatic arthropods, which breathe by true gills. ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"In his " Zoologie " ('90) he adopts the following arrangement: Arthropoda.
I Class, Crustacea. I Sub-Class Entomostraca, including as Orders: I, ..."
3. Animals: A Text-book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Harold Heath (1905)
"class crustacea 92. General characters.—In the Arthropods, that is, the crabs,
lobsters, ... The first class (Crustacea) contains the crayfish, crabs, etc.; ..."
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