are crawdads and crayfish the same thing?
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Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters (to which they are related). In some parts of the United States they are also known as crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs, or yabbies.
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The difference between scampi (langoustine) and prawns is that the scampi belong to the lobster family and prawns to the shrimp family.
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Silverfish, scorpion, dragonfly and prawns are the organisms which belong to the phylum Arthropoda. The characteristic of arthropod is the presence of hard exoskeleton. The exoskeleton is made up of chitin. They have a segmented body and jointed appendages.
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Insects, spiders, crabs, and scorpions belong to the phylum Arthropoda. Arthropods are invertebrate animals without a backbone. They have segmented bodies and an exoskeleton, a skeleton outside of their bodies. The name comes from another feature they share— jointed appendages such as wings, legs, and mouthparts.
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Caimans belong to the same family as the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis); they're more distantly related to crocodiles, which belong to a separate family under the order Crocodylia.
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Shrimp possess lamellar, plate-like gills and a set of claws on their front two pairs of legs. Prawns, in comparison, have branching gills, and claws on three sets of their legs, with the front pair being noticeably larger. ... Prawns, lacking such body segmentation, have straighter bodies than shrimp.
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A prawn is a crustacean. ... prawns, shrimp, crabs, ...) and Hexapoda together form a monophyletic group. Crustaceans are arthropods and are therefore much more closely related to insects, molluscs and spiders than to any lineage that we would call fish.
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Differing mostly in their body parts, insects, such as ants, flies, wasps and dragonflies, have tri-segmented bodies consisting of the head, thorax and abdomen; crustaceans, such as crabs, lobsters, shrimps and crayfish, have only two body segments — the head and thorax.
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Although cicadas are often called locusts, they are not synonymous. Locusts are short-horned grasshoppers. Cicadas are an entirely different, plant-sucking creature. The 13-year cicadas are a mysterious thing.
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There are two groups of shellfish: crustacea (such as shrimp, crab and lobster) and mollusks (such as clams, mussels, oysters and scallops).
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The crayfish has 8 jointed walking legs, a segmented body, 2 pairs of sensory antennae, and compound eyes. It has 2 large pincers, or claws, called chelipeds. If a crayfish loses a leg, the leg will regenerate (regrow). The head and thorax are fused, forming the cephalothorax.
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The arachnids (class Arachnida) are an arthropod group that includes spiders, daddy longlegs, scorpions, mites, and ticks as well as lesser-known subgroups.
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Scorpions, mites, and ticks are also part of the arachnid family. ... Arachnids belong to an even larger group of animals called “arthropods” which also include insects and crustaceans (lobster, crabs, shrimp, and barnacles). This is the largest group in the animal kingdom!
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A prawn is a crustacean. Crustacean (incl. prawns, shrimp, crabs, ...) and Hexapoda together form a monophyletic group. Crustaceans are arthropods and are therefore much more closely related to insects, molluscs and spiders than to any lineage that we would call fish.
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Both are crustaceans, but belong to different orders. Shrimp are the Natantia suborder of the Decapoda order; krill are of the Euphausiacea order. There are approximately 85 species of krill and more than 1,900 species of shrimp.
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Locusts and cicadas, particularly periodical cicadas, are often confused. However, the two are quite different. Locusts are a type of grasshopper, while cicadas are actually cousins of crickets.
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Although cicadas are often called locusts, they are not synonymous. Locusts are short-horned grasshoppers. Cicadas are an entirely different, plant-sucking creature.