Akanthophoreidae
Akanthophoreidae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Tanaidacea. Genera: * '' Akanthophoreus'' Sieg, 1986 * '' Brixia (crustacean)'' Jóźwiak, Drumm, Bird & Błażewicz, 2018 * '' Chauliopleona'' Dojiri & Sieg, 1997 * '' Mimicarhaphura'' Sieg, 1986 * '' Parakanthophoreus'' Larsen & Araújo-Silva, 2014 * '' Paraleptognathia'' Kudinova-Pasternak, 1981 * '' Saurotipleona'' Bird, 2015 * '' Stenotanais'' Bird & Holdich, 1984 * '' Tumidochelia'' Knight, Larsen & Heard, 2003 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q18711052 Tanaidacea Crustacean families ...
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Tanaidacea
The crustacean order Tanaidacea (known as tanaids) make up a minor group within the class Malacostraca. There are about 940 species in this order. Description Tanaids are small, shrimp-like creatures ranging from in adult size, with most species being from . Their carapace covers the first two segments of the thorax. There are three pairs of limbs on the thorax; a small pair of maxillipeds, a pair of large clawed gnathopods, and a pair of pereiopods adapted for burrowing into the mud. Unusually among crustaceans, the remaining six thoracic segments have no limbs at all, but each of the first five abdominal segments normally carry pleopods. The final segment is fused with the telson and carries a pair of uropods. The gills lie on the inner surface of the carapace. The thoracic limbs wash water towards the mouth, filtering out small particles of food with the mouthparts or maxillipeds. Some species actively hunt prey, either as their only food source, or in combination with filte ...
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can be treated as a subphylum under the clade Mandibulata. It is now well accepted that the hexapods emerged deep in the Crustacean group, with the completed group referred to as Pancrustacea. Some crustaceans (Remipedia, Cephalocarida, Branchiopoda) are more closely related to insects and the other hexapods than they are to certain other crustaceans. The 67,000 described species range in size from '' Stygotantulus stocki'' at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span of up to and a mass of . Like other arthropods, crustaceans have an exoskeleton, which they moult to grow. They are distinguished from other groups of arthropods, such as insects, myriapods and chelicerates, by the possession of biramous (two-parted) limbs, and by th ...
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Brixia (crustacean)
Brixia may refer to: * Brescia, an Italian city referred to in Latin as Brixia * ''Brixia'' (planthopper), an insect genus * Brixia Model 35, a mortar * 521 Brixia Brixia (minor planet designation: 521 Brixia) is a relatively large minor planet, specifically an asteroid orbiting mostly in the asteroid belt that was discovered by American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan on January 10, 1904. The name derives ...