The Crustaceans PortalCrustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea ( /krəˈsteɪʃə/), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods ( shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is now well accepted that the hexapods ( insects and entognathans) emerged deep in the Crustacean group, with the completed group referred to as Pancrustacea. The three classes Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda and Remipedia are more closely related to the hexapods than they are to any of the other crustaceans ( oligostracans and multicrustaceans). The 67,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at 0.1 mm (0.004 in), to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to 3.8 m (12.5 ft) and a mass of 20 kg (44 lb). Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by their larval forms, such as the nauplius stage of branchiopods and copepods. Most crustaceans are free-living aquatic animals, but some are terrestrial (e.g. woodlice, sandhoppers), some are parasitic (e.g. Rhizocephala, fish lice, tongue worms) and some are sessile (e.g. barnacles). The group has an extensive fossil record, reaching back to the Cambrian. More than 7.9 million tons of crustaceans per year are harvested by fishery or farming for human consumption, consisting mostly of shrimp and prawns. Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but may be the animals with the greatest biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain. The scientific study of crustaceans is known as carcinology (alternatively, malacostracology, crustaceology or crustalogy), and a scientist who works in carcinology is a carcinologist. ( Full article...) Selected article
Chirocephalus diaphanus is a widely distributed European
species of
fairy shrimp that lives as far north as Great Britain, where it is the only surviving species of fairy shrimp and is protected under the
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It is a translucent animal, about 0.5 in (13 mm) long, with reddened tips to the
abdomen and
appendages. The body comprises a head, a thorax bearing 11 pairs of
appendages, and a seven-segmented abdomen. In males, the
antennae are enlarged to form "frontal appendages", while females have an egg pouch at the end of the thorax.
The life cycle of C. diaphanus is extremely fast, and the species can only persist in pools without predators. The eggs tolerate drying out, and hatch when re-immersed in water. C. diaphanus was first reported in the scientific literature in 1704, but was only separated from other species and given its scientific name in 1803; the specific epithet diaphanus refers to the animal's transparency. Did you know?
Selected biography
Mary J. Rathbun (1860–1943) was an
American
zoologist, specialising in crustaceans. She was born on June 11, 1860 in
Buffalo, New York the youngest of five children. Her mother died when she was only one year old, and Mary was therefore "thrown on her own resources". She was schooled in Buffalo, graduating in 1878, but never attended college. Mary first saw the
ocean in 1881 when she accompanied her brother,
Richard Rathbun, to
Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He was employed as a scientific assistant to
Addison Emery Verrill, alongside Verrill's chief assistant, the carcinologist
Sidney Irving Smith. Mary helped label, sort and record Smith's specimens, and worked on crustaceans ever since.
For three years, Mary worked on a voluntary basis for her brother, before being granted a clerkship by Spencer Fullerton Baird at the Smithsonian Institution. She continued to work at the museum, largely unaided, and after 28 years, she was promoted to assistant curator in charge of the Division of Crustacea. Her largest work was Les crabes d'eau douce ("Freshwater crabs"), published in three volumes in 1904–1906. She wrote or co-wrote 166 papers in total, including descriptions of 1147 new species and subspecies, 63 new genera, one subfamily, 3 families and a superfamily, as well as other nomenclatural novelties. The taxa first described by Rathbun include important commercial species such as the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus, and the tanner crab, Chionoecetes bairdi. She retired on the last day of 1914, but did not stop working until her death. She qualified for a Ph.D. at George Washington University in 1917. Selected imageThe Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister (formerly Cancer magister), is a species of crab that inhabits East Pacific eelgrass beds and water bottoms from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Santa Cruz, California. General imagesThe following are images from various crustacean-related articles on Wikipedia.
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The Crustaceans PortalCrustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea ( /krəˈsteɪʃə/), a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods ( shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is now well accepted that the hexapods ( insects and entognathans) emerged deep in the Crustacean group, with the completed group referred to as Pancrustacea. The three classes Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda and Remipedia are more closely related to the hexapods than they are to any of the other crustaceans ( oligostracans and multicrustaceans). The 67,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at 0.1 mm (0.004 in), to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to 3.8 m (12.5 ft) and a mass of 20 kg (44 lb). Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by their larval forms, such as the nauplius stage of branchiopods and copepods. Most crustaceans are free-living aquatic animals, but some are terrestrial (e.g. woodlice, sandhoppers), some are parasitic (e.g. Rhizocephala, fish lice, tongue worms) and some are sessile (e.g. barnacles). The group has an extensive fossil record, reaching back to the Cambrian. More than 7.9 million tons of crustaceans per year are harvested by fishery or farming for human consumption, consisting mostly of shrimp and prawns. Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but may be the animals with the greatest biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain. The scientific study of crustaceans is known as carcinology (alternatively, malacostracology, crustaceology or crustalogy), and a scientist who works in carcinology is a carcinologist. ( Full article...) Selected article
Chirocephalus diaphanus is a widely distributed European
species of
fairy shrimp that lives as far north as Great Britain, where it is the only surviving species of fairy shrimp and is protected under the
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It is a translucent animal, about 0.5 in (13 mm) long, with reddened tips to the
abdomen and
appendages. The body comprises a head, a thorax bearing 11 pairs of
appendages, and a seven-segmented abdomen. In males, the
antennae are enlarged to form "frontal appendages", while females have an egg pouch at the end of the thorax.
The life cycle of C. diaphanus is extremely fast, and the species can only persist in pools without predators. The eggs tolerate drying out, and hatch when re-immersed in water. C. diaphanus was first reported in the scientific literature in 1704, but was only separated from other species and given its scientific name in 1803; the specific epithet diaphanus refers to the animal's transparency. Did you know?
Selected biography
Mary J. Rathbun (1860–1943) was an
American
zoologist, specialising in crustaceans. She was born on June 11, 1860 in
Buffalo, New York the youngest of five children. Her mother died when she was only one year old, and Mary was therefore "thrown on her own resources". She was schooled in Buffalo, graduating in 1878, but never attended college. Mary first saw the
ocean in 1881 when she accompanied her brother,
Richard Rathbun, to
Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He was employed as a scientific assistant to
Addison Emery Verrill, alongside Verrill's chief assistant, the carcinologist
Sidney Irving Smith. Mary helped label, sort and record Smith's specimens, and worked on crustaceans ever since.
For three years, Mary worked on a voluntary basis for her brother, before being granted a clerkship by Spencer Fullerton Baird at the Smithsonian Institution. She continued to work at the museum, largely unaided, and after 28 years, she was promoted to assistant curator in charge of the Division of Crustacea. Her largest work was Les crabes d'eau douce ("Freshwater crabs"), published in three volumes in 1904–1906. She wrote or co-wrote 166 papers in total, including descriptions of 1147 new species and subspecies, 63 new genera, one subfamily, 3 families and a superfamily, as well as other nomenclatural novelties. The taxa first described by Rathbun include important commercial species such as the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus, and the tanner crab, Chionoecetes bairdi. She retired on the last day of 1914, but did not stop working until her death. She qualified for a Ph.D. at George Washington University in 1917. Selected imageThe Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister (formerly Cancer magister), is a species of crab that inhabits East Pacific eelgrass beds and water bottoms from Alaska's Aleutian Islands to Santa Cruz, California. General imagesThe following are images from various crustacean-related articles on Wikipedia.
Crustacean lists
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