Decapoda

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Noun1.Decapoda - lobstersDecapoda - lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns
animal order - the order of animals
Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca - largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies
decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
Reptantia, suborder Reptantia - lobsters; crabs
family Nephropsidae, Nephropsidae - in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae
family Paguridae, Paguridae - hermit crabs
Natantia, suborder Natantia - shrimp; prawns; etc.
2.Decapoda - squids and cuttlefishes
animal order - the order of animals
Dibranchia, Dibranchiata, subclass Dibranchia, subclass Dibranchiata - comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish)
decapod - cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
genus Loligo - squids
genus Ommastrephes - a genus of Decapoda
genus Architeuthis - giant squid
family Sepiidae, Sepiidae - true cuttlefishes
family Spirulidae, Spirulidae - coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications
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Potamidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) aus Afghanistan, Westasien und dem Mittelmeerranum (Eine Revision der Untergattung Potamon s str.).
This study determined the carapace length (CL)-weight relationships of the five Decapoda species (Pachygrapsus marmoratus, Carcinus aestuarii, Liocarcinus depurator, Liocarcinus navigator, and Eriphia verrucosa) living in the Black Sea.
Among marine invertebrates, decapod crustaceans (Arthropoda: Crustacea: Multicrustacea: Malacostraca: Eumalacostraca: Eucarida: Decapoda) are recognized for their astonishing anatomical, ecological, physiological, and behavioral diversity (Martin and Davis, 2001; Ng et al., 2008; Schwentner et al., 2017).
Studies on Decapoda and Copepoda in Memory of Michael T'rkay
Specimens of decapoda were identified using the criteria as previously described by Bouvier (8), Zariquiey Alvarez (9,10), Demir (11), Holthuis (12-15), Geldiay and Kocatas (16,17), Ingle (18,19) and Balkis (20).
Expansion of southern distributional range of Ucides occidentalis (Decapoda: Ucididae) and Cardisoma crassum (Decapoda: Gecarcinidae)
Brachyuran crabs belong to the Order Decapoda, the most diverse group of crustaceans alive today.
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