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Decapod
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| "Decapoda" from Ernst Haeckel's Artforms of Nature, 1904 | |
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| Order: | Decapoda Latreille, 1802
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Decapoda is an order of crustaceans in the class Malacostraca. Many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp are in this order. Many decapods are scavengers - they eat dead plants and animals. Crabs are mixed feeders, taking algae and shellfish such as molluscs. Lobsters eat mostly live prey.
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