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Definition of Decapoda
1. Noun. Lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Malacostraca, Subclass Malacostraca
Member holonyms: Decapod, Decapod Crustacean, Reptantia, Suborder Reptantia, Family Nephropsidae, Nephropsidae, Family Palinuridae, Palinuridae, Astacidae, Astacura, Family Astacidae, Family Paguridae, Paguridae, Natantia, Suborder Natantia
2. Noun. Squids and cuttlefishes.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Dibranchia, Dibranchiata, Subclass Dibranchia, Subclass Dibranchiata
Member holonyms: Decapod, Genus Loligo, Genus Ommastrephes, Genus Architeuthis, Family Sepiidae, Sepiidae, Family Spirulidae, Spirulidae
Definition of Decapoda
1. n. pl. The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters, crabs, etc.
Medical Definition of Decapoda
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Decapoda
Literary usage of Decapoda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"decapoda. The decapoda is the most important group of Crustacea, since it contains
... Only the last five pairs (whence the name decapoda) are locomotor. ..."
2. Elements of Zoölogy: A Text-book by Sanborn Tenney (1875)
"decapoda or Ten-footed Crustaceans, with only five foot-seg ments; as Crabs,
Lobsters, Craw-fishes, Shrimps, Prawns, etc. 2. ..."
3. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"D. decapoda. The very primitive invagination-gastrula of Lucifer, ... Among the
other decapoda, a comparatively primitive position is occupied by ..."
4. Elements of Entomology: Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges by William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, Henri Milne-Edwards, Achille Comté (1845)
"The principal orders are named decapoda, Iso'poda, ... I. The order of decapoda (from
the Greek, deca, ten, and pous, foot) is so called, ..."
5. A Manual of the Mollusca: A Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1871)
"SECTION B.—decapoda. Arms 8. Tentacles 2, elongated, cylindrical, with expanded
ends. Suckers pedunculated, armed with a horny ring. ..."
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