Description

Organisms with 10 appendages
Pair of chelipeds in a moveable finger
The hard uppper shell of a turtle, crustacean, or arachnid
Thin sensory appendages on the heads of insects, crustaceans, and some other arthropods
A pair of globular organs in the head through which organisms see,
Inhabit intertidal and near-shore habitats in the colder and temperature waters of the Earth's oceans
Live on sandy bottoms and have thin exoskeletons
One of the pair of legs that bears the large chelae in decapod crustaceans
An aquatic mollusk that has a compressed body enclosed within a hinged shell, such as oysters, clams, mussels, and scallops
Inhabits the rocky intertidal zone; very agile climber and rapid crawler
Relatively short for shore crabs
Clan of closely related animals that includes snails, slugs, clans, oysters
"Stomach foot"; snails and slugs
Blanket of soft tissue that covers a mollusc's body like a bathrobe
Long ribbon-like tongue coated with overlappping teeth
Encased by an external skeleton and appendages are jointed
Smallest of crustaceans; have elongated antennae
One of the walking limbs of a crustacean
swimming limb of a crustacean, five pairs of which are typically attached to the abdomen
The rearmost segment of the body of certain arthropods, such as the middle lobe of the tail of a lobster
the sixth and last pair of abdominal appendages of lobsters and related crustaceans, forming part of the tail fan
used in feeding and mating; claw-like
an arthropod of the large, mainly aquatic group Crustacea, such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, or barnacle
the terminal segment of a forelimb,
distinct male and female individual organisms
have a row of small blue eyes along the mantle edge
large phylum of segmented worms
outer covering made of tough but flexible collagen
brightly colored segmented worms
paddle-like fleshy paired appendages
Bundles of bristles
pair of feelers
Composed of chitin
have a curved body that is flattened sideways
dorsoventrally flattened
pointed appendages which are used to grasp food

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