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Crustaceaμαλακοστράκα (gr.); Crustacea (lat.); Krustentiere (ger.)

  • A large group of mainly aquatic arthropods comprising crabs, lobsters, shrimps, woodlice, barnacles, and many minute forms, which are very diverse in appearance but generally have two pairs of antennae, four or more pairs of limbs, and several other appendages. (OED 2009)
    animal
    c. -350 (BC)

    Ἄλλο δὲ γένος ἐστὶ […] τὸ τῶν μαλακοστράκων, ἀνώνυμον ἑνὶ ὀνόματι, οἷον κάραβοι καὶ γένη τινὰ καρκίνων καὶ ἀστακῶν·[Eine andere Klasse bilden die Weichschaligen, für welche es keinen gemeinsamen Namen giebt, wie die Langusten und einige Arten Krabben und Hummern]

    Aristotle (c. 350 BC). Historia animalium 490b10-14 (transl. H. Aubert and F. Wimmer 1868).

    1606

    Crustaceorum vocarorum animalium quæ nuper, cum de Mollibus ageremus in genere, exanguia esse etiam, satis, ni fallor, ex Aristotele probanimus, tractatui secundum tribuimus locum præferimusque […] membra omnia distinctiora habeant, perfectioraque; atque item plura.

    Aldrovandi, U. (1606). De reliquis animalibus exanguibus libri quatuor post mortem eius editi nempe de mollibvs, crvstaceis, testaceis et zoophytis:91.

    1656

    Shell-creatures, whereof some are called Mollia, some Crustacea, others Testacea.

    Tradescant, J. (1656). Musæum Tradescantianum: sig. A4.

    1693

    The Second Section contains the greater Exanguious Animals, which are either Mollia, as the Sepia […] Or, lastly, Crustacea, as the Astacus fluviatilis, Cancer Marinus, &c.

    Anonymus (1693). [Rev. Dale, S. (1693). Pharmacologia seu Manuductio ad Materiam Medicam in qua Medicamenta Officinalia Simplicia]. Philosophical Transactions 17, 925-935: 929.

    1800

    die Flechsen an den Gliedmassen der Krustenthiere und Insecten [sind] von Fleischfasern rings umgeben

    Anonymus (1800). [Rev. Cuvier, G. (1800). Leçons d’anatomie comparée, vol. 1]. Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung 4, 465-472: 470.

    1818

    Insecten und Krustentiere

    Suckow, F.W.L. (1818). Anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen der Insecten und Krustentiere.