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The 67,000 described species range in size from Most crustaceans are free-living shrimp and prawns. Krill and copepods are not as widely fished, but may be the animals with the greatest biomass on the planet, and form a vital part of the food chain. The scientific study of crustaceans is known as carcinology (alternatively, malacostracology, crustaceology or crustalogy), and a scientist who works in carcinology is a carcinologist. (Full article... )
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predators. C. mutica is usually found in dense colonies attached to submerged man-made structures, floating seaweed , and other organisms.
C. mutica is synanthropic , being found in large numbers in and around areas of human activity. Its ecological and economic impact as an invasive species is unknown, but it poses a serious threat to native populations of skeleton shrimp in the affected areas.
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zoologist, specialising in crustaceans. She was born on June 11, 1860 in Buffalo, New York the youngest of five children. Her mother died when she was only one year old, and Mary was therefore "thrown on her own resources". She was schooled in Buffalo, graduating in 1878, but never attended college. Mary first saw the ocean in 1881 when she accompanied her brother, Richard Rathbun, to Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He was employed as a scientific assistant to Addison Emery Verrill, alongside Verrill's chief assistant, the carcinologist Sidney Irving Smith . Mary helped label, sort and record Smith's specimens, and worked on crustaceans ever since.
For three years, Mary worked on a nomenclatural novelties. The taxa first described by Rathbun include important commercial species such as the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus, and the tanner crab, Chionoecetes bairdi. She retired on the last day of 1914, but did not stop working until her death. She qualified for a Ph.D. at George Washington University in 1917.
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