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Malacostraca
The Malacostraca (Greek: "soft shell") are the largest subgroup of crustaceans and include most of the animals that non-experts recognise as crustaceans, including decapods (such as crabs, lobsters and shrimp), stomatopods (mantis shrimp) and krill. They also include the amphipods and the only substantial group of land-based crustaceans, the isopods (woodlice and related species).
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