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	Introduction to the Malacostraca
		Members of Malacostraca generally have a total of 19-20 segments; 5 segments make up the cephalon or head, 8 segments compose the thorax, and 6 or 7 segments make up the abdomen.
		Malacostraca can be divided into two groups, the Phyllocarida
		Eumalacostraca is the group that contains most of the animals the general public recognize as crustaceans, such as shrimp, crabs, lobsters.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /arthropoda/crustacea/malacostraca.html (142 words)

	Amazon.com: malacostraca (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Crustacea malacostraca (crayfish, isopods, amphipods) (Keys to the freshwater macroinvertebrates of Massachusetts) by Douglas G Smith (Unknown Binding - 1988)
		Malacostraca (Amphipoda, Mysidacea, Isopoda, and Decapoda) (Ecology of the zoobenthos of southeastern Lake Michigan near the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant) by Michael H Winnell (Unknown Binding - 1984)
		Icelandic Malacostraca in the museum of Reykjavik (ViÌsindafeÌlag iÌslendinga) by Bjarni Saemundsson (Unknown Binding - 1937)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=malacostraca&tag=icongroupinterna&index=blended&link_code=qs&page=1 (346 words)

	R.K. Kudinova-Pasternak (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tanaidacea (Malacostraca) of the deep-sea Romansh and Guinea Hollow Trenches.-- Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 54: 682-687.
		Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) for the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic and sub-antarctic.-- Trudy Instituta Okeanologii.
		Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the underwater ridge Nasca in the Pacific.-- Zoologicheskii Zh.
	tidepool.st.usm.edu /tanaids/kudpast.html (955 words)

	Tanaidacea Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) from the Atlantic sector of Antarctic and Subantartic.-- Trudy Instituta Okeanologii.
		Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the underwater ridge Naska in the Pacific.-- Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 69: 135-140.
		Deep-sea Tanaidacea (Crustacea, Malacostraca) collected in the Caribbean Sea and Puerto-Rico Trench during the 16-th cruise of R/V "Akademic Kurchatov" and the resemblance between fauna of deep-sea Tanaidacea of the Caribbean region and the Pacific.-- Trudy Instituta okeanologii.
	tidepool.st.usm.edu /tanaids/biblioghm.htm (2090 words)

	Taxonomy
		It can be argued that Maxillopoda should actually be dissolved into its four subclasses, Copepoda, Thecostraca, Tantulocarida and Mystacocarida, to make nine classes of crustaceans, but it is generally kept as a whole.
		Malacostraca quickly breaks down into a large number of groups.
		Most Malacostraca have five head segments, eight thorax segments and six or seven abdominal segments.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/e/i/eim104/taxonomy.htm (838 words)

	MALACOSTRACA (crabs, woodlice, shrimps etc.)
		A Key to the British Species of Crustacea: Malacostraca
		MALACOSTRACA may also be covered by literature listed under:
		Malacostraca may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
	www.bioimages.org.uk /HTML/T418.HTM (37 words)

	Prides and Prejudices: The Tragedy of Genius-- Ranger Ricky on Woodlice
		Thus it is that so few are even aware that the common woodlouse they have seen a thousand times is a terrestrial crustacean, let alone that there are well over 3,500 species of them worldwide.
		Of the six classes of crustaceans, the woodlouse belongs to the largest group, the Malacostraca, which is also home to the shrimp, lobsters, crayfish, and crabs that Suburbanites consider fancy eating after church on Sundays.
		Malacostraca is Greek for "soft shell," but I don't know exactly what other kinds of shell they were comparing it to.
	pridesandprejudices.com /2006-10/04.html (1495 words)

	UHH: Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum - Niedere Tiere II
		Brandt, A. (1995): The Peracarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of the Northeast Water Polynya.
		Brandt, A. (2000): Hypotheses on Southern Ocean peracarid evolution and radiation (Crustacea, Malacostraca).
		Lörz and Brandt (2003): Composition of suprabenthic Peracarida (Crustacea, Malacostraca) during the Antarctic autumn.
	www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de /zim/niedere2/pub.html (709 words)

	ipedia.com: Crustacean Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Less formally, we can state that the most important groups of crustaceans are barnacles (infraorder Cirripedia), branchiopods, copepods and Malacostraca (crabs, lobsters, shrimps and krill).
		Although crustaceans are rarer as fossils than trilobites are, a number of different types of crustaceans are common in the rocks of the Cretaceous period as well as those of the Caenozoic era.
		The most well known crustaceans, the malacostraca (crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp), although widespread today are only found sporadically as fossils.
	www.ipedia.com /crustacean.html (693 words)

	HofPhD.html (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Stomatopods (Crustacea: Malacostraca) from the Miocene of California.
		For example, the position of the stomatopods within the Malacostraca is still uncertain (chapter 7).
		ABSTRACT - The palaeostomatopod crustacean Bairdops beargulchensis Schram and Horner, 1978 (Malacostraca, Hoplocarida) from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone is now seen as a taxonomic composite that arose from the confusion of specimens of two distinct hoplocarid species.
	palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk /personnel/departed/hof/HofPhD.html (2793 words)

	ADW: Malacostraca: Information
		Decapoda (crabs, lobsters, and shrimps) is the most speciose group within the Malacostraca.
		The anterior one or two abdominal appendages in males are modified into reproductive structures designed to aid in sperm delivery.
		Development ranges from direct to metamorphic among members of class Malacostraca.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Malacostraca.html (742 words)

	MALACOSTRACA - Online Information article about MALACOSTRACA
		All these marks may fail, and then the species must be proved to be Malacostracan by other See also:
		evidence than the number of its segments; but if some exceptions exhibit fewer, none of the Malacostraca exhibits more than 19 (+ 1 or + 2) segments, unless the Nebaliidae be included.
		Of the corresponding pairs of appendages thirteen belong to the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MALACOSTRACA.html (5156 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| The complete mitochondrial genome of the stomatopod crustacean Squilla mantis
		Within the Crustacea members of the class Malacostraca, which include crabs, lobsters, and shrimp, are perhaps the most well known to non-scientists.
		Mantid shrimps, or stomatopods, are benthic predators distributed in the shallow waters of tropical and subtropical seas.
		Squilla mantis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Stomatopoda), with a maximum length of around 20 cm, is distributed in shallow waters throughout the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Atlantic [10].
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2164/6/105 (3776 words)

	Medical Dictionary: Malacostraca - WrongDiagnosis.com - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Malacostraca : large class in the phylum Crustacea; larger crustaceans, with appendages on the abdominal segment; includes a variety of ecologically and commercially important species; usually marine but also occupy some freshwater and terrestrial habitats.
		Other terms that may be related to Malacostraca:
		The description of Malacostraca may also be used for the following terms:
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/malacostraca_printer.htm (195 words)

	Malacostraca in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		The 'Malacostraca' (Greek: "soft shell") are the largest subgroup of crustaceans and include most of the animals that non-experts recognise as crustaceans, such as the decapods (such as crabs, mole crabs, lobsters and true shrimps), the stomatopods or mantis shrimps, and krills.
		The classification of crustaceans is currently being debated, and the Malacostraca are regarded by some authors as a class and by others as a subclass.
		The head has 6 segments, with a pair of antennules and a pair of antennae, as well as mouthparts.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Malacostraca (304 words)

	Aquarium Possums - Mysids in the Aquarium by Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D. - Reefkeeping.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In my recent column discussing crabs, I wrote about a group of species called the Malacostraca.
		The name Pericarida means "near to- or close to- shrimps," and indicates that all the animals in this grouping we call a superorder, while closely related to shrimps, belong to a different lineage from the true shrimps.
		Pericarids have all the characteristics of the Malacostraca, but they possess a few special ones of their own.
	www.reefkeeping.com /issues/2004-02/rs (1978 words)

	Marine Phyla Pages
		Members of Malacostraca generally have a total of 19-20 segments; 5 segments make up the cephalon or head, 8 segments compose the thorax, and 6 or 7 segments make up the abdomen.
		Malacostraca can be divided into two groups, the Phyllocarida and the Eumalacostraca.
		Phyllocarida contains the oldest crustacean known and includes only one living group.
	kingfish.coastal.edu /marine/302/phyla/malacostraca.htm (250 words)

	Insect Social Systems (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Defining Characteristics: 1) thorax with 8 segments, abdomen with 6 to 7 segments plus a telson; 2) appendages on the sixth abdominal segment are flattened to form uropods.
		Malacostraca contains nearly 75% of all described crustaceans, including decapods, euphausiids, stomatopods, isopods, and amphipods.
		The basic malacostracan body is tripartite, consisting of a head, thorax, and abdomen.
	bama.ua.edu /~clydeard/bsc376/lecture32.htm (1808 words)

	SICB - 2002 meeting - Abstract Details (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Malacostraca is the most speciose and morphologically diverse class in the Crustacea, with approximately 30,000 described species.
		However, because of this diversity in body plan it has been proposed that morphological characters in malacostracan systematic studies may be confounded by parallel or convergent evolution.
		Among some of our preliminary results are the placement of mysids as a basal group outside of the Peracarida, a sister group relationship between the Amphipoda and Isopoda, and a clarification of the relationships within the Amphipoda.
	www.sicb.org /meetings/2003/schedule/abstractdetails.php3?id=289 (249 words)

	malacostraca - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Malacostraca : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		MALACOSTRACA : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=malacostraca&ls=a (134 words)

	Crustaceans
		Great camouflage!When I first spotted it on an Ocracoke beach on 5/16/05, I thought it was covered with sand.
		I saw this small animal on land, in a karst forest near the beach.
		These are pelagic barnacles most often seen when they're washed up on beaches.
	www.dpughphoto.com /crustaceans,_mollusks.htm (374 words)

	Welcome to Department of Biological Sciences
		Dr. Modlin’s research continues to focuses primarily on Crustaceans in the class Malacostraca: orders Leptostraca, Mysidacea, Cumacea, Tanaidacea and Isopoda.
		As a Smithsonian Institution Research Fellow Dr. Modlin has been examining the biodiversity and ecology of mysids and leptostracans inhabiting the coral reefs and mangrove swamps in the waters off Belize, Central America.
		Modlin, R.F. Paranebalia belizensis a new species from the shallow waters off Belize, Central America (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Leptostraca).
	www.uah.edu /biology/modlin.html (337 words)

	From The Cover: The brain of the Remipedia (Crustacea) and an alternative hypothesis on their phylogenetic ...
		in Malacostraca (20), the fibers in the remipede OGTs seem to
		arrangement that closely resembles that in Malacostraca (22-25).
		of Malacostraca more than that of any other crustaceans.
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/101/11/3868 (3358 words)

	Definition of malacostraca - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	Class Malacostraca - Malacostracans - BugGuide.Net
		Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Peracarida »; Isopods (Isopoda) »; Woodlice (Oniscidea) »; Sowbugs (Oniscidae)
		Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Peracarida »; Isopods (Isopoda) »; Woodlice (Oniscidea) »; Sowbugs (Oniscidae) » Oniscus » European Sowbug (Oniscus asellus)
		Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Peracarida »; Isopods (Isopoda) »; Woodlice (Oniscidea) »; Pillbugs (Armadillidiidae)
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