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decapod::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | decapod crustacean |
| Type of | crustacean |
| Has types | crawdaddy, hermit crab, lobster, tropical prawn, crab, crawfish, crayfish, prawn, shrimp, crawdad |
decapod::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk |
| Has types | cuttle, spirula, cuttlefish, spirula peronii, squid |
Examples of decapod
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This has resulted in development in decapod crustaceans being generally abbreviated.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The other decapod, Palaeopalaemon newberryi, is of similar age and was found in Ohio and Iowa.
From the sciencedaily.com
Apart from the prawns of the suborder Dendrobranchiata, all decapod crustaceans brood their eggs on the female's pleopods.
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This would be the first known evidence in the fossil record of a whale bone being consumed by decapod crustaceans with osteophagic feeding habits.
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Thus a single species of hermit crab is classified in the decapod order, which belongs to the sub-phylum of crustaceans, the phylum of arthropods, and finally the animal kingdom.
From the guardian.co.uk
The warm waters of northern Australia are home to many species of decapod crustaceans, including crabs, false crabs, hermit crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and prawns.
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According to the paleontologists, the presence of bioerosion structures indicates that the contents of the bones were used as an extraordinary source of nutrients, possibly by decapod crustaceans.
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The Mazon Creek biota contains a decapod, Jeletzkya, which had ten arms, but the status of its shell is ambiguous as it has not been extracted from the concretion that preserves the only fossil.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Decapod crustacean: crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
- Cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
- The decapods or Decapoda (literally means "ten footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers. ...
- (Decapods) Meaning 'ten limbs' and includes crustaceans such as crabs, shrimp and prawn.
- (decapods) having ten (deca) feet (pods) - characteristic of crabs
- (de - kah - pod) Having ten feet. This term usually refers to members of the order Decapoda, e. g., lobsters and shrimp.
- Decapods are any of the order (Decapoda) or crustaceans (e.g., shrimp, lobsters, and crabs). Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.)
- A member of the group of crustaceans that includes lobsters, crayfish, crabs, and shrimps.
- An animal that possesses 10 appendages; also a subgroup of the class Crustacea.
