Carcinology Explained

Carcinology is a branch of zoology that consists of the study of crustaceans. Crustaceans are a large class of arthropods classified by having a hard exoskeleton made of chitin or chitin and calcium, three body regions, and jointed, paired appendages.^[1] Crustaceans include lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, copepods, barnacles and crabs.^[2] Most crustaceans are aquatic, but some can be terrestrial, sessile, or parasitic. Other names for carcinology are malacostracology, crustaceology, and crustalogy, and a person who studies crustaceans is a carcinologist or occasionally a malacostracologist, a crustaceologist, or a crustalogist.

The word carcinology derives from Greek Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: καρκίνος, karkínos, "crab"; and Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: -λογία, -logia.

Subfields

Carcinology is a subdivision of arthropodology, the study of arthropods which includes arachnids, insects, and myriapods.^[3] Carcinology branches off into taxonomically oriented disciplines such as:^[4]

• astacology – the study of crayfish
• cirripedology – the study of barnacles
• copepodology – the study of copepods

Journals

Scientific journals devoted to the study of crustaceans include:

• Crustaceana
• Journal of Crustacean Biology
• Nauplius

See also

• Entomology
• Publications in carcinology
• List of carcinologists

Notes and References

1. Koenemann . Stefan . Jenner . Ronald A. . Hoenemann . Mario . Stemme . Torben . von Reumont . Björn M. . 2010-03-01 . Arthropod phylogeny revisited, with a focus on crustacean relationships . Arthropod Structure & Development . Fossil Record and Phylogeny of the Arthropoda . 39 . 2 . 88–110 . 10.1016/j.asd.2009.10.003 . 19854296 . 2010ArtSD..39...88K . 1467-8039.
2. Book: Weis, Judith S. . Walking Sideways: The Remarkable World of Crabs . 2012 . Cornell University Press . 978-0-8014-5050-1 . 1 . 10.7591/j.cttn34xc . 2023-12-28 . 2023-11-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231120152710/https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.cttn34xc . live .
3. Book: An updated classification of the Recent Crustacea . 2023-11-20 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA . 978-1-891276-27-9 . 48789048 .
4. Zrzavý . J. . Štys . P. . December 14, 2002 . The basic body plan of arthropods: insights from evolutionary morphology and developmental biology . Journal of Evolutionary Biology . en . 10 . 3 . 353–367 . 10.1046/j.1420-9101.1997.10030353.x . 1010-061X . free .