carapace

small aquatic crustaceans lacking a carapace: fairy shrimps

n aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding a of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda

plural of carapace n

See Carapace.

decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers n