Crossword puzzle solution
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| 1. | Another word for claw: CHELIPED |
A. | The Latin name for lobster: HOMARUS |
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| 2. | Change of carapace: MOLT |
B. | Number of legs of a lobster: TEN |
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| 3. | Name given to the extension of the cephalothorax located between the eyes: ROSTRUM |
C. | Other name for walking legs: PEREIOPOD |
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| 4. | Small swimmeret located under the abdomen: PLEOPOD |
D. | Colour of a cooked lobster: RED |
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| 5. | Sensory organ used for touching and detecting odours: ANTENNA |
E. | Part of the body made of the head and the thorax: CEPHALOTORAX |
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| 6. | Central part of the lobster's tail: TELSON |
F. | Period during which the lobster is most active: NIGHT |
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| 7. | I am a prey of the lobster: WORM |
G. | I am in a certain way the liver: HEPATOPANCREAS |
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| 8. | Colour of my blood: TRANSPARENT |
H. | Name given to the first three stages of the lobster's life stages: LARVAE |
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| 9. | Name given to the 4th stage in the lobster's life cycle, when it prepares to establish on the bottom: POSTLARVAE |
I. | I protect the body of the lobster and I form the external skeleton: CARAPACE |
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| 10. | I resemble a lobster but I do not have large claws and I live in tropical seas: ROCK LOBSTER |
J. | Name given to a white lobster: ALBINOS |
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| 11. | With what do we catch lobsters?: TRAP |
K. | The American lobster lives in North America. Where does its closest relative live (the one that resembles it the most)?: EUROPE |
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| 12. | Part of the body made of six segments: ABDOMEN |
L. | It happens rarely that I am completely of this colour: BLUE |
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| 13. | The claw that enables a lobster to break up the shell or carapace of its preys: CRUSHER |
M. | A crustacean that is eaten by the lobster: CRAB |
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| 14. | The claw that enables a lobster to tear up the flesh of its preys: CUTTER |
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| 15. | Helps to maintain the claws closed while manipulating a lobster: RUBBER BAND |
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| 16. | I am a part of the mouth an I am used to grossly tear up the flesh of preys: MANDIBLE |
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| 17. | Sometimes I am brown with many yellow spots. They say I resemble the fur of a big cat. Which one?: LEOPARD |
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| 18. | I look like a small lobster but I live in freshwater: CRAYFISH |
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