Crustacean Anatomy, Diversity and Physiology

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What is meant by Crustacean Bauplan?
Its Bodyplan
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What is the Crustacean Bauplan?
Head (Cephalon) body (trunk) , Thorax and abdomen
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What are typical crustacean appendages like?
Biramous appendages
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How many pairs of appendages does the head always have?
5 Pairs
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What are the names of the 5 pairs of appendages?
1st and 2nd Antennae, Mandible, 1st and 2nd Maxilla
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When are appendages called Maxillipeds?
When 1-3 anterior thoracic segments (Thoracomeres) are fused to cephalon
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What is the Abdomen sometimes called?
Pleon
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What are the segments of the abdomen called?
Pleomeres
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What are Pleomeres followed by?
The Telson
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What is only found on Malacostracans?
Appendages on the abdomen
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What is the last pair of appendages called?
Uropods
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What is the first larval stage of marine crustaceans called?
Nauplius
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What does Decapod mean?
10-legged
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Why do female crabs have a larger abdomen?
Because they brood the offspring
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How do Crustaceans feed?
Filter feed using thoracic limbs, macrophage diets, herbivory, detritivore and predatory lifestyles, some parasitic lifestyles
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What does the basic digestive system of a crustacean consist of?
A foregut, hindgut and midgut
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What do Malacostracans have as a respiratory pigment?
Hemocyanin
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Most gills of crustaceans are derived from what?
Thoracic Epipodites
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How many types of crustacean gills are there?
3
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What are the 3 types of crustacean limbs?
Dendrobranchiate,Trichobranchiate and Phyllobranchiate
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What is meant by ' Crustaceans are always Ammonotellic?
Always produce Ammonia
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What does the Protocerebrum consist of?
Nerves from the eye
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What does the Deuterocerebrum consist of?
Nerves from the first antennae
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What does the Tritocerebrum consist of?
Nerves from 2nd antennae
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What is Ecdysis?
Moulting
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What is Ecdysis promoted by?
The secretion of steroid hormones- Ecdysteroids
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Which organ secretes Ecdysteroids?
The Y- Organ
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What is Ecdysteroid production inhibited by?
A moulting inhibiting hormone
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What is the moulting inhibiting hormone produced by?
Neurosecretory neurones in the eye stalk
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What hormones does the X-organ produce?
Moulting inhibiting, blood glucose control, chromatophore and retinal pigment
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What does Pericardial mean?
Around the heart
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What hormones do the Pericardial organs secrete?
Neuro-hormones controlling the heart rate and gill ventilation
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Are Crustaceans Dioeceous or Hermaphroditic?
Most dioecious
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What is crustacean sperm deposited as?
Spermatophores
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Where are spermatophores stored by the female?
In the Seminal Receptacle
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What is the name of the larva that's characteristic to Crustaceans?
Nauplius
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What is a crabs first larva called?
A Zoea
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What does a Zoea then turn to?
A Megalopa
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What happens before the Zoea turns to a Megalopa?
The Zoea Moults 4 times
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Where does the Megalopa habituate?
Benthic depths
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What is the final stage of development?
The Benthic megelopa metamorphoses to a small crab
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What does the Nauplius larva of a Free living barnacles moult to?
A Cypris
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How many pairs of thoracic limbs does a cyprid larva have?
6
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