arthropod collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

This scientific name is a misnomer, since the shell is soft only immediately after moulting, and is usually hard.

Malacostracans are sometimes contrasted with entomostracans, a name applied to all crustaceans outside the Malacostraca, and named after the obsolete taxon Entomostraca.

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