Malacostraca

Malacostraca, that is to say, are derived by inheritance from the same source with them.

Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859

A scarcely less minute account follows of the 'Malacostraca' or crustaceans, the lobsters and the crabs, the shrimps and the prawns, and others of their kind, a chapter to which Cuvier devoted a celebrated essay.

The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

The dominant groups of crustaceans are the Ostrachoda, Conchostraca and the Malacostraca.

Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

With regard to the Malacostraca or crustaceans, one species is that of the crawfish, and a second, resembling the first, is that of the lobster; the lobster differing from the crawfish in having claws, and in a few other respects as well.

The History of Animals 2002

Among his Malacostraca he compares point by point the external parts of the carabus (_Palinurus_), and the astacus (_Homarus_), and he compares also the general internal anatomy of the various "genera" he distinguishes.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Malacostraca (= higher Crustacea), Insecta (= annulose animals),

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

_Peneus_ with its long direct development gave the best and truest picture of the ancestral history of the Malacostraca, and that accordingly the nauplius and the zoaea larvæ represented important ancestral stages.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Malacostraca [Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimps, etc.] may perhaps present a point of union.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

A closer examination of the developmental history of the lower Crustacea is unnecessary after what has been said in general upon the historical significance of the young states, and the application of this which has just been made to the Malacostraca.

Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859

A similar development must have been once passed through by the primitive ancestor of all Malacostraca, probably differing from that of our Prawn, especially in the circumstance that it would go on more uniformly without the sudden change of form and mode of locomotion produced in the latter by the simultaneous sprouting forth and entering into action in the Nauplius of four and in the Zoea of five pairs of limbs.

Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859