Crossword-Solution: MALACOSTRACA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Malacostraca | n. pl. | A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| CRUSTACEA | 4 answers |
| ENTOMOSTRACA (subclass) | 5 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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MALACOSTRACA.—The higher division of the Crustacea, including the ordinary crabs, lobsters, shrimps, &c., together with the woodlice and sand-hoppers.
This is a circumstance which renders very doubtful the equivalence of the middle-body of the Malacostraca with the section of the body which in the Copepoda bears the swimming feet and in the Cirripedia the cirri.
According to all the characters established in the last paragraph, the Prawn that we traced from the Nauplius through states analogous to Zoëa and _Mysis_ to the form of a Macrurous Crustacean appears at present to be the animal, which in the section of the higher Crustacea (Malacostraca) furnishes the truest and most complete indications of its primitive history.
Thus, that which appears probable even from the comparison of the limbs of the adult animal, finds fresh support in the developmental history, namely, that the lower Crustacea, like the Insects, are entirely destitute of the region of the body corresponding to the middle-body of the Malacostraca.
Among his Malacostraca he compares point by point the external parts of the carabus (_Palinurus_), and the astacus (_Homarus_), and he compares also the general internal anatomy of the various "genera" he distinguishes.