crustacea
Noun
Meaning
One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
class Crustacea
shrimp
crustacean
shellfish
prawn
decapod
seafood
crustaceous
krill
mollusca
crustose
shellfishes
crustaceans
molluscs
lobsters
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Among the procellariids, the prions concentrate on small crustacea, the fulmarine petrels take fish and krill but little squid, while the Procellaria petrels consume mainly squid.
Invertebrates ('animals without blood') are insects, crustacea (divided into non-shelled – cephalopods – and shelled) and testacea (molluscs).