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  2. Crustacean - Wikipedia

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    Crustaceans (from Latin meaning: "those with shells" or "crusted ones") are invertebrate animals that constitute one group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea (/ k r ə ˈ s t eɪ ʃ ə /), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods ...

  3. Shellfish - Wikipedia

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    Despite the name, shellfish are not fish. [2] Most shellfish are low on the food chain and eat a diet composed primarily of phytoplankton and zooplankton. [3] Many varieties of shellfish, and crustaceans in particular, are actually closely related to insects and arachnids; crustaceans make up one of the main subphyla of the phylum Arthropoda.

  4. Mollusca - Wikipedia

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    Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks [a] (/ ˈ m ɒ l ə s k s /). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda . [ 5 ]

  5. This is the healthiest seafood, according to experts - AOL

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    Seafood is a broad category — from fish to shellfish, mollusks, crustaceans, bivalves and everything swimming in between. ... Canned vs. fresh seafood. Canned or tinned seafood is often just as ...

  6. List of types of seafood - Wikipedia

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    Shellfish include various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. In most parts of the world, fish are generally not considered seafood even if they are from the sea. In the US, the term "seafood" is extended to fresh water organisms eaten by humans, so any edible aquatic life may be broadly referred to as seafood in the US.

  7. Bivalvia - Wikipedia

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    Invertebrate predators include crustaceans, starfish and octopuses. Crustaceans crack the shells with their pincers and starfish use their water vascular system to force the valves apart and then insert part of their stomach between the valves to digest the bivalve's body. It has been found experimentally that both crabs and starfish preferred ...

  8. After more than 20 years of study, scientists are ready to ...

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    It uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans to eat — a feeding strategy also used by anemones and some jellies. To avoid being eaten, the mollusk hides with its transparent body and makes a ...

  9. Shellfish allergy - Wikipedia

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    Shellfish allergy is among the most common food allergies."Shellfish" is a colloquial and fisheries term for aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs such as clams, mussels, oysters and scallops, crustaceans such as shrimp, lobsters and crabs, and cephalopods such as squid and octopus.