malacostracan crustacean

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   a major subclass of crustaceans

   Broadercrustacean

   Narrowerkrillopossum shrimpisopodamphipod

   Part ofMalacostraca

Questions about malacostracan crustacean

What does malacostracan crustacean mean?

malacostracan crustacean means "a major subclass of crustaceans".

Is malacostracan crustacean a common word?

malacostracan crustacean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.