[See -(O)LOGY.] The scientific study of Crustacea. Hence Crustaceological a., pertaining to crustaceology; Crustaceologist, one versed in crustaceology.
1828. Webster, Crustalogy, that part of zoology which treats of crustaceous animals…. Crustaceology, the word sometimes used, is ill-formed…. Who can endure such words as crustaceological?
1840. trans. Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 409, note. Milne Edwards has not mentioned them in his Review of Crustaceology. Ibid., 408, note. Anomalous animals … which have long perplexed Crustaceologists.
1876. Page, Advd. Text-bk. Geol., xiii. 237. A fresh and inviting field to the crustaceologist.
