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Preferred term

Isopoda  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • One of the largest orders of mostly marine CRUSTACEA, containing over 10,000 species. Like AMPHIPODA, the other large order in the superorder Peracarida, members are shrimp-like in appearance, have sessile compound eyes, and no carapace. But unlike Amphipoda, they possess abdominal pleopods (modified as gills) and their bodies are dorsoventrally flattened.

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Entry terms

  • Isopods
  • txid29979

In other languages

  • French

  • Isopodes
  • txid29979

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-NBB4Z2KP-N

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