Carcinology

[1] Crustaceans include lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, copepods, barnacles and crabs.

Other names for carcinology are malacostracology, crustaceology, and crustalogy, and a person who studies crustaceans is a carcinologist or occasionally a malacostracologist, a crustaceologist, or a crustalogist.

The word carcinology derives from Greek καρκίνος, karkínos, "crab"; and -λογία, -logia.

Carcinology is a subdivision of arthropodology, the study of arthropods which includes arachnids, insects, and myriapods.

[3] Carcinology branches off into taxonomically oriented disciplines such as:[4] Scientific journals devoted to the study of crustaceans include:

Various crustaceans, all of interest to carcinologists.