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All these marks may fail, and then the species must be proved to be Malacostracan by other 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.

MALACOSTRACA.

The choice is open to maintain the last as an independent subclass, and to follow Claus in calling it the Leptostraca, or to introduce it among the Malacostraca as the Nebaliacea, or with Packard and Sars to make it an entomostracan subdivision under the title Phyllocarida.

Under the heading Crustacea the Entomostraca have already been distinguished not only from the Thyrostraca or Cirripedes, but also from the Malacostraca, and an intermediate group of which the true position is still disputed.

Malacostraca (q.v.).

Orders: Entomostraca and Malacostraca.

Classes: Arachnida, Insecta (including Sub-Classes M y riapoda, Hexapoda), Crustacea (including Sub-Classes Entomostraca, Malacostraca), Epizoa (Epizootic Crustacea), Annellata (Chaeto p ods and Leeches), Cirripedia.

Orders: (a) Malacostraca: Decapoda, Stomapoda, Amphipoda, Laemodipoda, Isopoda; (b) Entomostraca: Branchioloda, Poecilopoda, Trilobitae.

The science of insects began with Aristotle, who included in a class "Entoma" the true insects, the arachnids and the myriapods, the Crustacea forming another class ("Malacostraca") of the "Anaema" or "bloodless animals."

malacostraca's Meaning':

largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine freshwater and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies

Synonyms:

order Euphausiacea, order Mysidacea, Mysidacea, malacostracan crustacean, subclass Malacostraca, class, Euphausiacea, order Isopoda, class Crustacea, order Amphipoda, Crustacea, Amphipoda, Decapoda, order Decapoda, Isopoda,

Antonyms:

inelegance,