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Definition of Malacostracans
1. malacostracan [n] - See also: malacostracan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malacostracans
Literary usage of Malacostracans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Revised Text-book of Geology by James Dwight Dana, William North Rice (1897)
"The highest order of the malacostracans is that of Decapods (Greek Se/ca, ten,
and TTOU?, foot), in which six pairs of appendages are developed as mouth ..."
2. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy (1879)
"4 malacostracans, like the Lobster, which leaves out the Nauplius and Zoea ...
malacostracans like the fresh-water Crayfish, which is developed directly ..."
3. A Course in Invertebrate Zoölogy: A Guide to the Dissection and Comparative by Henry Sherring Pratt (1915)
"... and those malacostracans which are born in a later period of their development
pass through a nauplius stage (ie, a stage in which the body is ..."
4. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1869)
"... and malacostracans, the higher group, as done by Cuvier; Reptiles into Amphibians
and true Reptiles; Vertebrates into water-breathing and air-breathing: ..."
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