Crustaceans belong to the phylum Arthropoda, along withinsects,arachnids,millipedes,centipedes, and fossiltrilobites. However, crustaceans occupy their own subphylum, Crustacea. The term crustacean derives from the Latincrusta, meaning crust or hard shell. In some references, the crustaceans are classif...
The syncarid was more tolerant to temperature increases than were the copepods. More than 60% of the syncarids were still alive at 30 °C meaning that the upper thermal limit at which 50% of the populations died (UTL50) was > 30 °C (Figs.1and4). The cyclopoid copepod (UTL50...