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Chapter 33, Problem 2A
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Decapoda are crustaceans that involve lobsters, crabs, shrimps and crayfish. These come under the class arthropods. Centipedes and millipedes are the examples of a Myripoda class of arthropods. Centipedes are most closely related to the lobsters because they come under the arthropods and share various characteristics such as joint bodies and limbs and external skeletons.
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