page_title: Arthropod cuticle
hierarchical_section_title: Arthropod cuticle
caption_attribution_description: English: The zoea larva of a blue king crab, Paralithodes platypus.
context_page_description: The cuticle forms the major part of the integument of the Arthropoda. It includes most of the material of the exoskeleton of the insects, Crustacea, Arachnida, and Myriapoda.
context_section_description: The cuticle forms the major part of the integument of the Arthropoda. It includes most of the material of the exoskeleton of the insects, Crustacea, Arachnida, and Myriapoda.
caption: This Zoea-stage larva is hardly recognisable as a crab, but each time it sheds its cuticle it remodels itself, eventually taking on its final crab form
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