Month: January 2013

. *TYPES* —> *DECAPODA* . (“eucarida” is a superorder of the Malacostraca, a class of the crustacean subphylum, comprising the decapods, krill and Amphionides) (they are characterized by having the carapace fused to all thoracic segments, and by […]

. “REPTILIOMORPHA” . (ancient greek τετραπόδηs tetrapodēs, “four-footed”), or the tetrapods /ˈtɛtrəpɒd/, . -the superclass Tetrapoda comprises the first 4-limbed ‘vertebrates’ and their descendants, including the living and extinct ‘amphibians’, ‘birds’, […]

. *TYPES* —> -EUCARIDA- . -“eumalacostraca” is a subclass of crustaceans, containing almost all living malacostracans, or about 40,000 described species- . (the remaining subclasses are the Phyllocarida and […]

-the “Commissioners’ Plan” of 1811 called for 12 numbered avenues running north and south roughly parallel to the shore of the “Hudson River”, each 100 feet (30 m) […]

. *”heart rate” is the speed of the ‘heartbeat’ measured by the ‘# of contractions of the heart per minute’ (‘bpm’)* . (the ‘heart rate’ can vary according […]

*EUMALACOSTRACA* . (“malacostraca” is the largest of the 6 classes of ‘crustaceans’, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders) . (its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity […]

. “EUTELEOSTOMI” “FISH” “TETRAPODS” . /ˌneɪθoʊstoʊˈmɑːtə/  . -“gnathostomata” are the ‘jawed vertebrates’- (the term derives from ‘Greek’: γνάθος (gnathos) “jaw” + στόμα (stoma) “mouth”) (‘Gnathostome’ diversity comprises […]

. -CRUSTACEA- -HEXAPODA- . -“pancrustacea” is a clade, comprising all [crustaceans] + [hexapods]- . (this grouping is contrary to the Atelocerata hypothesis, in which Myriapoda and Hexapoda are sister taxa, and Crustacea are only more distantly related) (as […]

*MALACOSTRACA* . “crustacea”  /krʌˈsteɪʃə/) . (“crustaceans” form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as ‘crabs’, ‘lobsters’, ‘crayfish’, ‘shrimp’, ‘krill’, ‘woodlice’, and ‘barnacles’) . (the […]

*8 JANUARY 1815* . (‘the eighth’ was a ‘federal holiday’ in the ‘united states’ from ‘1828’ until ‘1861’) (lemme guess…centuries later ‘we’ realized ‘we’ were in the […]