order Decapoda


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Noun1.order Decapoda - lobstersorder 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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Interestingly, this study is the first evidence of vertical transmission of a microsporidium in decapods (Order Decapoda) within the same Class Malacostraca, Subphylum Crustacea and Phylum Arthropoda with Order Amphipoda.
Vertical Transmission and Early Diagnosis of the Microsporidian Enterocytozoon hepatonaei in Whiteleg Shrimp Penaeus vannamei
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.
Decapod Crustaceans in the Marmara Island (Marmara Sea) and Ecological Characteristics of Their Habitats
Brachyuran crabs belong to the Order Decapoda, the most diverse group of crustaceans alive today.
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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