Tags: Crustacean.

The Valvifera are marine isopod crustaceans. Valviferans are distinguished however by the flat valve-like uropods which hinge laterally and fold inward beneath the rear part of their bodies covering the pleopods. Some species are omnivorous and serve as effective scavengers in the economy of the sea.

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