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The 67,000 described species range in size from Most crustaceans are free-living shrimp and prawns. Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but may be the animals with the greatest biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain. The scientific study of crustaceans is known as carcinology (alternatively, malacostracology, crustaceology or crustalogy), and a scientist who works in carcinology is a carcinologist. (Full article... )
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predators. C. mutica is usually found in dense colonies attached to submerged man-made structures, floating seaweed , and other organisms.
C. mutica is synanthropic , being found in large numbers in and around areas of human activity. Its ecological and economic impact as an invasive species is unknown, but it poses a serious threat to native populations of skeleton shrimp in the affected areas.
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Selected biographySelected image Eurydice pulchra, the speckled sea louse, is a species of isopod crustacean found in the northeast Atlantic Ocean. General imagesThe following are images from various crustacean-related articles on Wikipedia.
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