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Invertebrates, CEN-EAS</h1> <div class="font-serif grid"> <div class="col-sm-70 col-sm-offset-15"> Yet, in addition to being critically important鈥攂ecause they naturally recycle decaying matter鈥攊n maintaining balance within the food chain, bugs can also be fascinating creatures, whether in regard to the water strider's ability to run across the surface of water or the assassin bugs' varied and creative means of catching and killing their prey. 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Their ranks include nearly 100,000 described species of soft-bodied animals that are usually wholly or partly enclosed in a calcium carbonate shell; examples include snails, clams, oysters, squids, and octopuses.</div> </div> <a class="link-white font-weight-bold d-inline-block mt-30" href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates">Back To Bugs, Mollusks & Other Invertebrates Page</a> </div> </div> <div class="container mt-30"> <h2 class="label my-30">Bugs, Mollusks & Other Invertebrates Encyclopedia Articles By Title</h2> <div class="grid top g-10 mb-40"> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center "> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 " href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/1">ABA-CED</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center bg-orange"> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 link-white pe-none" href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/2">CEN-EAS</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center "> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 " href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/3">ECH-HET</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center "> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 " href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/4">HIS-MAY</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center "> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 " href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/5">MEA-PLE</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center "> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 " href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/6">PLE-SKI</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center "> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 " href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/7">SLI-VIN</a> </div> </div> <div class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center "> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 " href="/browse/Bugs-Mollusks-Invertebrates/8">VOL-ZOR</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid g-20"> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/centipede" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>centipede</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> centipede, (class Chilopoda), any of various long, flattened, many-segmented predaceous arthropods. Each segment...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cephalochordate" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cephalochordate</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cephalochordate, any of more than two dozen species belonging to the subphylum Cephalochordata of the phylum Chordata....... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cephalochordate/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cephalochordate/External-features" style="text-decoration: underline">Anatomy, Physiology, Evolution</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cephalochordate/Evolution-and-paleontology" style="text-decoration: underline">Evolution, Paleontology, Anatomy</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cephalopod" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cephalopod</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cephalopod, any member of the class Cephalopoda of the phylum Mollusca, a small group of highly advanced and organized,...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cephalopod/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cephalopod/Form-and-function" style="text-decoration: underline">Tentacles, Jet Propulsion, Camouflage</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cephalopod/Classification" style="text-decoration: underline">Mollusks, Tentacles, Shells</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Ceratites" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Ceratites</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Ceratites, extinct genus of cephalopods (whose modern members include the octopus, the squid, and the nautilus)...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Ceraurus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Ceraurus</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Ceraurus, genus of trilobites (extinct arthropods) found as fossils in rocks of Ordovician period (505 to 438 million...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/chafer" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>chafer</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> chafer, (subfamily Melolonthinae), any of a group of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae (insect order Coleoptera)....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/checkered-beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>checkered beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> checkered beetle, any of the approximately 3,000 species of the insect family Cleridae (order Coleoptera). Checkered...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Cheilostomata" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Cheilostomata</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Cheilostomata, major group of calcified bryozoans (small, colonial, aquatic invertebrate animals) that first appeared...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/chewing-louse" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>chewing louse</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> chewing louse, (suborder Amblycera and Ischnocera), any of about 2,900 species of small, wingless insects (order...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/chigger" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>chigger</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> chigger, (suborder Prostigmata), the larva of any of approximately 10,000 species of mites in the invertebrate...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/chinch-bug" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>chinch bug</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> chinch bug, (Blissus leucopterus), important grain and corn pest belonging to the insect family Lygaeidae (order...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/chiton-mollusk" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>chiton</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> chiton, any of numerous flattened, bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusks, worldwide in distribution but most...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Chonetes" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Chonetes</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Chonetes, genus of extinct brachiopods, or lamp shells, found as fossils in marine rocks of Silurian to Permian...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Chrysaora" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Chrysaora</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Chrysaora, genus of marine jellyfish of the class Scyphozoa (phylum Cnidaria) that is found in all temperate and...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cicada" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cicada</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cicada, (family Cicadidae), family of more than 3,000 species of sound-producing insects. Cicadas are found in...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cirripede" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cirripede</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cirripede, any of the marine crustaceans of the infraclass Cirripedia (subphylum Crustacea). The best known are...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/clam" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>clam</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> clam, in general, any member of the invertebrate class Bivalvia鈥攎ollusks with a bivalved shell (i.e., one with...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/clam-shrimp" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>clam shrimp</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> clam shrimp, any member of the crustacean order Conchostraca (subclass Branchiopoda), a group of about 200 species...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/clearwing-moth" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>clearwing moth</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> clearwing moth, (family Sesiidae), any of approximately 1,000 species of moths (order Lepidoptera) that are long-legged...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/click-beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>click beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> click beetle, (family Elateridae), family of approximately 7,000 species of beetles named for the clicking noise...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-1"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Climacograptus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Climacograptus</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Climacograptus, genus of graptolites, extinct colonial animals related to the primitive chordates, found as fossils...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/clionid" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>clionid</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> clionid, any member of the sponge family Clionidae (class Demospongiae, phylum Porifera), noted for its ability...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Clonograptus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Clonograptus</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Clonograptus, genus of graptolites (extinct, small floating colonial animals related to the primitive chordates),...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cnidarian" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cnidarian</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cnidarian, any member of the phylum Cnidaria (Coelenterata), a group made up of more than 9,000 living species....... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cnidarian/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cnidarian/Importance" style="text-decoration: underline">Symbiosis, Adaptations, Predators</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cnidarian/Locomotion" style="text-decoration: underline">Tentacles, Medusae, Polyps</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cnidarian/Form-and-function" style="text-decoration: underline">Polyp, Medusa, Tentacles</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cnidarian/Evolution" style="text-decoration: underline">Radial Symmetry, Polyp & Medusa</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/cnidarian/Critical-appraisal" style="text-decoration: 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href="/animal/cockle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cockle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cockle, any of the approximately 250 species of marine bivalve mollusks, or clams, of the family Cardiidae. Distributed...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cockroach-insect" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cockroach</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cockroach, (order Blattodea), any of about 4,600 species of insects, a few species of which are pests. Most cockroaches...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/robber-crab" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>coconut crab</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> coconut crab, (Birgus latro), large nocturnal land crab of the southwest Pacific and Indian oceans. It is closely...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>coleopteran</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> coleopteran, (order Coleoptera), any member of the insect order Coleoptera, consisting of the beetles and weevils....... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/beetle/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/beetle/Importance" style="text-decoration: underline">Pest Control, Agriculture, Diversity</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/beetle/Larvae" style="text-decoration: underline">Larval, Pupal, Metamorphosis</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/beetle/Feeding-habits-and-habitats" style="text-decoration: underline">Feeding Habits, Habitats</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/beetle/Form-and-function" style="text-decoration: underline">Adaptations, Defense, Diet</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/beetle/Adaptations" style="text-decoration: underline">Adaptations, Defense, Flight</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/beetle/Annotated-classification" style="text-decoration: underline">Insects, Orders, Families</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Colorado-potato-beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Colorado potato beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Colorado potato beetle, (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), species of leaf beetle that is an economically important pest...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/colossal-squid" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>colossal squid</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> colossal squid, (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), a massive, elusive cephalopod species inhabiting cold, deep regions...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/comb-clawed-beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>comb-clawed beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> comb-clawed beetle, (subfamily Alleculinae), any of numerous insects in the order Coleoptera that are known for...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/comb-footed-spider" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>comb-footed spider</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> comb-footed spider, any member of the spider family Theridiidae (order Araneida). The more than 1,000 species of...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Composita" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Composita</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Composita, genus of extinct brachiopods, or lamp shells, found as fossils in marine rocks of the Carboniferous...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/conch" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>conch</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> conch, marine snail, of the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda), in which the outer whorl of the shell is...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Conchidium" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Conchidium</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Conchidium, genus of extinct brachiopods, or lamp shells, that is a valuable index fossil in marine rocks of the...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cone-shell" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cone shell</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cone shell, any of several marine snails of the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) constituting the genus...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cone-headed-grasshopper" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cone-headed grasshopper</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cone-headed grasshopper, any insect of the subfamily Copiphorinae within the long-horned grasshopper family Tettigoniidae...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Constellaria" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Constellaria</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Constellaria, genus of extinct bryozoans (small colonial animals that produce a skeletal framework of calcium carbonate)...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-2"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/copepod" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>copepod</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> copepod, (subclass Copepoda), any member of the widely distributed crustacean subclass Copepoda. Copepods are of...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/copper-butterfly" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>copper butterfly</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> copper butterfly, (subfamily Lycaeninae), any member of a group of butterflies in the gossamer-winged butterfly...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/coquina-clam" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>coquina clam</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> coquina clam, any bivalve mollusk of the genus Donax. These marine invertebrates inhabit sandy beaches along coasts...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/coral" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>coral</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> coral, any of a variety of invertebrate marine organisms of the class Anthozoa (phylum Cnidaria) that are characterized...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/coreid-bug" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>coreid bug</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> coreid bug, (family Coreidae), any of 2,000 widely distributed species of bugs (order Heteroptera), many of which...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/corn-earworm" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>corn earworm</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> corn earworm, larva of the moth Heliothis zea (in some classifications H. armigera; family Noctuidae). The smooth,...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cottony-cushion-scale" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cottony-cushion scale</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cottony-cushion scale, (Icerya purchasi), a scale insect pest (order Homoptera), especially of California citrus...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cowrie" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cowrie</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cowrie, any of several marine snails of the subclass Prosobranchia (class Gastropoda) comprising the genus Cypraea,...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/crab" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>crab</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> crab, any short-tailed member of the crustacean order Decapoda (phylum Arthropoda)鈥攅specially the brachyurans (infraorder...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/crab-spider" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>crab spider</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> crab spider, (family Thomisidae), family of spiders (order Araneida) that are crablike in shape and, like many...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/crayfish" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>crayfish</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> crayfish, any of numerous crustaceans (order Decapoda, phylum Arthropoda) constituting the families Astacidae (Northern...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/creeping-water-bug" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>creeping water bug</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> creeping water bug, any flat-backed, oval-shaped insect of the family Naucoridae (order Heteroptera), which numbers...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Crepicephalus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Crepicephalus</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Crepicephalus, genus of trilobites (extinct arthropods) useful as an index fossil for Upper Cambrian rocks in North...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cricket-insect" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cricket</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cricket, (family Gryllidae), any of approximately 2,400 species of leaping insects (order Orthoptera) that are...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/crinoid" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>crinoid</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> crinoid, any marine invertebrate of the class Crinoidea (phylum Echinodermata) usually possessing a somewhat cup-shaped...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/crown-of-thorns-starfish" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>crown-of-thorns starfish</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> crown-of-thorns starfish, (Acanthaster planci), reddish and heavy-spined species of the phylum Echinodermata. The...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/crustacean" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>crustacean</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> crustacean, any member of the subphylum Crustacea (phylum Arthropoda), a group of invertebrate animals consisting...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/crustacean/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/crustacean/Natural-history" style="text-decoration: underline">Aquatic, Arthropod, Exoskeleton</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/crustacean/Form-and-function-of-internal-features" style="text-decoration: underline">Anatomy, Adaptations, Diversity</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/crustacean/Evolution-and-paleontology" style="text-decoration: underline">Evolution, Paleontology, Adaptations</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/animal/crustacean/Annotated-classification" style="text-decoration: underline">Arthropod, Aquatic, Decapod</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/crustacean-louse" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>crustacean louse</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> crustacean louse, any of various small aquatic invertebrates of the subphylum Crustacea (phylum Arthropoda) that...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Cryptoblastus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Cryptoblastus</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Cryptoblastus, extinct genus of blastoids, a primitive group of echinoderms related to the modern sea lilies, found...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Cryptolithus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Cryptolithus</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Cryptolithus, genus of trilobites (extinct arthropods) found as fossils in Europe and North America in the Ordovician...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-3"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Cryptostomata" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Cryptostomata</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Cryptostomata, order of bryozoans (small colonial animals) found as fossils in rocks of Ordovician to Permian age...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/ctenophore" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>ctenophore</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> ctenophore, any of the numerous marine invertebrates constituting the phylum Ctenophora. The phylum derives its...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cuckoo-bee" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cuckoo bee</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> What are cuckoo bees known for? Cuckoo bees are known for their unique behavior of brood parasitism, a form of...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cuckoo-wasp" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cuckoo wasp</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cuckoo wasp, (family Chrysididae), any member of a large and widely distributed family of solitary (non-social)...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cucumber-beetle-insect-Diabrotica-genus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cucumber beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cucumber beetle, any of several species of leaf beetles of the subfamily Galerucinae that are important pests....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/curculio-weevil-group" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>curculio</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> curculio, any of various stout-bodied weevils of the beetle family Curculionidae (order Coleoptera). Among the...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cuttlefish" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cuttlefish</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cuttlefish, any of several marine cephalopods of the order Sepioidea, related to the octopus and squid and characterized...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cutworm" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cutworm</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cutworm, Larva of certain species of owlet moths (family Noctuidae). The cutworm (not a true worm) is a serious...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Cyathocrinites" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Cyathocrinites</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Cyathocrinites, extinct genus of crinoids, or sea lilies, found as fossils in Silurian to Permian marine rocks...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Cystiphyllum" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Cystiphyllum</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Cystiphyllum, extinct genus of solitary corals found as fossils in Silurian and Devonian marine rocks (the Silurian...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/cystoid" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>cystoid</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> cystoid, any member of an extinct class (Cystoidea) of primitive echinoderms (animals with a hard, calcareous external...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/daddy-longlegs" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>daddy longlegs</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> daddy longlegs, (order Opiliones), any of more than 6,000 species of arachnids (class Arachnida) that are known...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/damsel-bug" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>damsel bug</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> damsel bug, (family Nabidae), any predacious insect in the true bug order, Heteroptera, that feeds on insect eggs,...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/damselfly" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>damselfly</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> damselfly, (suborder Zygoptera), any of a group of predatory, aerial insects that are in the order Odonata. Damselflies...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Daonella" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Daonella</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Daonella, genus of extinct pelecypods (clams) useful as a guide, or index, fossil in Triassic rocks. The shell...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Daphnia" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Daphnia</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Daphnia, well-known water flea (q.v.)... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/darkling-beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>darkling beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> darkling beetle, (family Tenebrionidae), any of approximately 20,000 species of insects in the order Coleoptera...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/deathwatch-beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>deathwatch beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> deathwatch beetle, (Xestobium rufovillosum), an anobiid, or borer insect, of the family Anobiidae (insect order...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/decapod" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>decapod</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> decapod, (order Decapoda), any of more than 8,000 species of crustaceans (phylum Arthropoda) that include shrimp,...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Deiphon" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Deiphon</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Deiphon, genus of trilobites (extinct arthropods) easily recognized in fossil form in Silurian rocks in North America...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-4"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/dermestid-beetle" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>dermestid beetle</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> dermestid beetle, (family Dermestidae), any of approximately 700 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/diamondback-moth" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>diamondback moth</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> diamondback moth, (Plutella xylostella), species of moth in the family Yponomeutidae (order Lepidoptera) that is...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/animal/Dictyoclostus" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Dictyoclostus</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 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