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  2. Lobster - Wikipedia

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    Lobster anatomy includes two main body parts: the cephalothorax and the abdomen. The cephalothorax fuses the head and the thorax, both of which are covered by a chitinous carapace. The lobster's head bears antennae, antennules, mandibles, the first and second maxillae. The head also bears the (usually stalked) compound eyes. Because lobsters ...

  3. Decapod anatomy - Wikipedia

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    The decapod (crustaceans such as a crab, lobster, shrimp or prawn) is made up of 20 body segments grouped into two main body parts: the cephalothorax and the pleon . [1] [2] Each segment may possess one pair of appendages, although in various groups these may be reduced or missing. They are, from head to tail:

  4. Decapod - Wikipedia

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    The Decapoda or decapods (lit. ' ten-footed ') are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, and includes crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, and prawns.Most decapods are scavengers.

  5. Malacostraca - Wikipedia

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    Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders.Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, prawns, woodlice, amphipods, mantis shrimp, tongue-eating lice and many other less familiar animals.

  6. Homarus gammarus - Wikipedia

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    On this European lobster, the right claw (on the left side of the image) is the crusher and the left claw is the cutter.. Homarus gammarus is a large crustacean, with a body length up to 60 centimetres (24 in) and weighing up to 5–6 kilograms (11–13 lb), although the lobsters caught in lobster pots are usually 23–38 cm (9–15 in) long and weigh 0.7–2.2 kg (1.5–4.9 lb). [3]

  7. Panulirus argus - Wikipedia

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    Panulirus argus, the Caribbean spiny lobster, [2] is a species of spiny lobster that lives on reefs and in mangrove swamps in the western Atlantic Ocean. Anatomy [ edit ]

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  9. Antenna (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Cutaway diagram of a barnacle, with antennae highlighted by arrow. Crustaceans bear two pairs of antennae. The pair attached to the first segment of the head are called primary antennae or antennules. This pair is generally uniramous, but is biramous in crabs and lobsters and remipedes.