Re: USAGE: names for pillbug/wood louse/woodbug
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 12, 2004, 4:56 |
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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:10:08 -0500, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
>Roger Mills scripsit:
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>> I'm familiar-- via that Cajun gent who used to cook on PBS-- with that
>> regional use of bug = crayfish (shrimp or prawn to the rest of us; I've
>> never understood the fine distinctions).
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> Crayfish = crawfish = crawdads are by no means shrimp = prawns. The
> former comprise about 500 species, almost all fresh-water, and belong to
> the families Astacidae, Parastacidae, and Austroastacidae of the order
> Decapoda of the class Crustacea of the phylum Arthropoda.
I'd understood crayfish etc to be fresh-water lobsters. Is that consistent
with what you wrote? I hope this gets in before midnight.
Jeff
> Shrimp comprise about 2000 species, mostly oceanic, and constitute the
> suborder Natantia of the same order Decapoda. (Suborders are an optional
> classification level; not all families belong to suborders.)
>
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