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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Marine Crustaceans

The main characteristic of the crustaceans is the presence of a chitinous exoskeleton, periodically shed and replaced when the animal grows.
They have a segmented body, each segment with appendages. The functional variability of these appendages in different groups is a principal reason why these animals display an enormous evolutionary diversity. The appendages evolved into feet, antennae, gills, mandibles, etc.

Sexual reproduction of crustaceans takes place when the female releases the eggs immediately after fertilization and the larvae either develop directly into forms that are morphologically identical to the adults, or pass through different larval stages that are morphologically very different from their fully-developed adult state.

Authors: Nathalia Tirado, Angel Chiriboga, Diego Ruiz, Stuart Banks.

Other Contributors: Margarita Brandt, Rodrigo Bustamante, Rosita Calderón, Graham Edgar, José Miguel Fariña, Cleveland Hickman, Inti Keith, Diana Loyola, Fernando Pinillos, Fernando Rivera, Franz Smith, Yanella Tutivén, Mariana Vera, Luis Vinueza, Janai Yepez.

Names of taxa included: 238 total (216 accepted, 20 unidentified taxon, 2 doubtful).

Origin of the taxa included: 23 endemic, 9 indigenous.

Crustacea Species Checklist

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Domain Eukaryota

Kingdom Animalia

Division Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Order Lepidoptera

Class Malacostraca

Order Amphipoda

Order Decapoda

Order Euphausiacea

Order Isopoda

Order Mysida

Order Stomatopoda

Order Tanaidacea

Class Maxillopoda

Order Calanoida

Order Harpacticoida

Order Misophrioida

Order Pedunculata

Order Sessilia

Order Siphonostomatoida

Order Thoracica

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This list should be cited as follows:

Tirado, N., Chiriboga, A., Ruiz, D., Banks, S. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Marine Crustaceans - FCD Lista de especies de Crustáceos Marinos de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/marine-invertebrates/marine-crustaceans/ Last updated 13 Apr 2011.