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Primitive crustaceans

Higher crustacean

Water fleas: Small crustaceans found
among the summer plankton, drifting in
the Gulf water. The typical unique
species is Evadne tergestina.

Large lobsters, living around and
among coral reefs. Their planktonic
larvae often found on the beach.

Copepoda: Main group of plankton
crustaceans, that consist the Holoplankton
who spend all their life adrift.

Small short-tailed crabs, affiliated
with the hermit crabs. Differ from
true crabs by their long antennae.

Ostracoda: Crustaceans equipped with a
bivalved shell, like bivalve mollusca. Planktonic and Benthic.

Hermit crabs. Live solitarily in gastropod
shells. Some carry on their shell sea-anemones.

Cumacea: Tiny crustaceans with enlarged
cephalothorax, and long antennae (males)
that live on bottom, but also swim .

Crabs living at the water edge, digging
into gravel. Colors adapted to the sand color,
for camouflage. Living in coarse sand. Affiliated
with hermit crabs to the Anomura.

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Crustaceans that build cone shaped
shells the shore rocks.
Their larvae (below)
drift among the plankton,
before settling down, as adults.

Crabs bearing skeletal processes, to fix
algal pieces and other debris for camouflage.

Goose barnacles, related to the former group
and larvae of Cirripedia, showing
similarity to other crustaceans

Crabs living in sandy bottom
shallow lagoons

Sea lice, elongated, with equal size
legs, living in many habitats. Some
are fish parasites

Crabs living in sandy bottom
shallow lagoons

Shrimp-like, with one pair of feet
enlaged into raptorian claws

Crabs carrying strong pincers,
dark at their tips. Males may be
more colorful

Tiny planktonic crustaceans,
attracted to light at night. Show
a distinct statocyst in the tail

Crabs with flat hind legs, for swimming
and digging

Shrimps living in sandy and algal
habitat, swimming or jumping

Dark colored crabs of the
rocky intertidal zone.

Shrimps who use their modified
pincer to shock their prey.
Some have symbiotic relation
with fish

Sandy shore dwelling crabs
digging burrows into the sand to
hide during high tide

Elongated prawns, unually transparent,
live tide pools or reef crevices, or
associated with larger animal or corals

Hairy rock dwelling crabs

Krill, group of shrimp-like planktonic
crustacean, sometimes abundant, known to
be the main food of baleen whales.

Symbiotic crabs living
among branches of bushy corals

Pycnogonida
Sea-spiders, small group of marine
spider-like animals.

Ctenolepisma mauritanica
a thysanuran insect, known also as
Silver-fish, that can be found on sand and
gravel beach