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Noun	1.	order Decapoda - lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns Decapoda 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 Palinuridae, Palinuridae - spiny lobsters Astacidae, Astacura, family Astacidae - crayfish family Paguridae, Paguridae - hermit crabs Natantia, suborder Natantia - shrimp; prawns; etc.
	2.	order Decapoda - squids and cuttlefishes Decapoda 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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Species collected in the littoral zone of Marmara Island Depths (m) 0-1 40 50 60 Order DECAPODA Suborder DENDROBRANCHIATA Parapenaeus longirostris (Lucas, 1946) + + + Suborder PLEOCYEMATA Infraorder CARIDEA Aegaeon lacazei (Gourret, 1887) + Palaemon elegans Rathke, 1837 + Plesionika heterocarpus (A.

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Biodiversity of brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Uran, Navi Mumbai, west coast of India

The recent genera of the caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Class Crustacea, order Decapoda, Supersection Natantia) with keys for their determination.

Distribution and abundance of pelagic shrimps from the deep scattering layer of the eastern Arabian Sea

30 1.72 33 13.20 Unidentified 515 29.5 37 14.80 Digested 1 0.06 66 26.40 Copepodite 9 0.52 12 4.80 Order Amphipoda 6 0.34 Suborder Hyperiidea 6 0.34 Order Ostracoda 52 2.98 12 4.80 Order Cladocera 20 1.15 Order Euphausida 165 9.45 2 0.80 Order Decapoda 59 3.38 13 5.20 Larvae 59 3.38 7 2.80 Undetermined crustaceans 6 2.40 TUNICATA 120 6.87 19 7.60 Order Appendiculata Oikopleura sp.

Feeding habits of four species of mesopelagic fishes from the Northern Chilean

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