Английская Википедия:Carcinology

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Various crustaceans, all of interest to carcinologists.

Carcinology is a branch of zoology that consists of the study of crustaceans. Crustaceans are a large class of arthropods classified by having a hard exoskeleton made of chitin or chitin and calcium, three body regions, and jointed, paired appendages.[1] Crustaceans include lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, copepods, barnacles and crabs.[2] Most crustaceans are aquatic, but some can be terrestrial, sessile, or parasitic. Other names for carcinology are malacostracology, crustaceology, and crustalogy, and a person who studies crustaceans is a carcinologist or occasionally a malacostracologist, a crustaceologist, or a crustalogist.

The word carcinology derives from Greek Шаблон:Lang, karkínos, "crab"; and Шаблон:Lang, -logia.

Subfields

Carcinology is a subdivision of arthropodology, the study of arthropods which includes arachnids, insects, and myriapods.[3] Carcinology branches off into taxonomically oriented disciplines such as:[4]

Journals

Scientific journals devoted to the study of crustaceans include:

See also

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References

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