Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
cypris adductor muscle — Transverse muscle that attaches the two sides together in the cypris larva of cirripedes [Brusca and Brusca, 2002] … Crustacea glossary
Rhizocephala — Taxobox | name = Rhizocephala image caption = The crab Liocarcinus holsatus parasitised by a rhizocephalan of the genus Sacculina showing the externa (circled) image width = 240px regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Crustacea… … Wikipedia
Semibalanus balanoides — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum … Wikipedia
crustacean — /kru stay sheuhn/, n. 1. any chiefly aquatic arthropod of the class Crustacea, typically having the body covered with a hard shell or crust, including the lobsters, shrimps, crabs, barnacles, and wood lice. adj. 2. belonging or pertaining to the… … Universalium
Cyprid — The barnacle cyprid (syn. cypris larva) is the final, lecithotrophic, larval stage of barnacles. Metamorphosis into a cyprid usually follows 5 or 6 planktotrophic nauplius stages and the time that the cyprid spends in the plankton can range from… … Wikipedia
compound eye — Array of contiguous ommatidia having common optic nerve trunk; paired [Moore and McCormick, 1969]. Paired array of contiguous ommatidia having common optic nerve trunks [McLaughlin, 1980]. (Order Cladocera): One of two large photosensitive organs … Crustacea glossary
cyprid — (Subclass Cirripedia): Cypris larva [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
nauplius — Characteristic crustacean larval stage bearing median simple (naupliar) eye and 3 pairs of setose, functional appendages destined to become the antennules, antennae and mandibles [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]. Early larval stage having only… … Crustacea glossary
primordial plate — (Subclass Cirripedia): One of typically five more rigid, plate like elements under shell of cypris larva. (Syn. primordial valve) [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
mysis stage — Larval stage in penaeoidean development equivalent to zoeal stage of Nephropoidea. (Syn. schizopod larva) [McLaughlin, 1980]. Post cypris larval stage in ontogeny of most crustaceans, characterized by presence of biramous limbs on all thoracic… … Crustacea glossary
