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| Head that functions as an organ for touch. |
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| Appendages used for cutting, grinding, and holding located behind the antennae. |
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| 2 pairs of them that function as respiratory and feeding organs. |
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| They are divided into 2 parts |
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| The last division of the body of the Crustacean. |
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| Appendages of the last body segment of the Crustacean |
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| Part of the exoskeleton that covers the cephalothorax. |
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| Muscles that pull in a specific structure. |
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| Muscles that straighten out a specific structure. |
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| A blood filled space on the venous side of the circulatory system that produces numerous hemolymph borne agents. |
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| antennal/maxillary/green gland |
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| Glands located in the antennae, that serve as excretory glands. |
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| Outermost layer of skin. Their exoskeleton. |
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| Molting or shedding an outer cuticular layer. |
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| Subclass of small Crustaceans that are found in the sea and nearly every fresh water environment |
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| Small sessile-eyed aquatic or terrestrial crustaceans with the body composed of seven free thoracic segments each bearing a pair of similar legs |
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| Crustaceans as shrimps, lobsters, and crabs with five pairs of thoracic appendages |
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| Pincers or claws at the end of crustaceans appendages. |
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| Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding |
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| A crustacean larva in usually the first stage after leaving the egg and with three pairs of appendages, a median eye, and little or no segmentation |
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