Crustaceans
Crustacea
Crustaceans (Crustacea /krʌˈsteɪʃə/) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles. The crustacean group is usually treated as a subphylum, and thanks to recent molecular studies it is now well accepted that the crustacean group is paraphyletic, and comprises all animals in the Pancrustacea clade other than hexapods. Some crustaceans are more closely related to insects and other hexapods than they are to certain...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Phytognomonica
Giambattista della Porta · 1588 · p.162
Margarita philosophica
Reisch, Gregorius · 1504 · p.463
Ulyssis Aldrovandi ... De reliquis animalibus exanguibus, utpote de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis & zoophytis, libri quatuor post mortem eius editi
Aldrovandi, Ulisse · 1618 · p.47
Hokusai Manga (北斎漫画), Vol. 1
Katsushika Hokusai · 1814 · p.23
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)
Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch · 1770 · p.119
The Book of Nature
Jan Swammerdam · 1737 · p.439
Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1705 · p.57
Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1705 · p.67
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.584
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.117
Georg Eberhard Rumphius — D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer (1705)
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1705 · p.49
History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds
Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.579
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