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Definition of Nephrops
1. Noun. A genus of Nephropsidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Nephropsidae, Nephropsidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephrops
Literary usage of Nephrops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"... similar in form in the two sexes, appear at this same time. At a still later
stage sexual differentiation is attained. The metamorphosis >if nephrops ..."
2. Travels in New Zealand: With Contributions to the Geography, Geology, Botany by Ernst Dieffenbach (1843)
"The eyes are large, as in nephrops: the sides of the second thoracic segment, in
the middle in front, with a spine, as in Pota- mobius, and a shorter one ..."
3. The Zoological Miscellany by John Edward Gray (1831)
"The eyes large, as in nephrops : the sides of the second thoracic segment ...
as in nephrops : the middle plate of the tail is of one piece, as in nephrops, ..."
4. A History of Crustacea: Recent Malacostraca by Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing (1893)
"The type-species, nephrops norwegicus (Linn.), is distributed generally through
the seas of Europe, belonging not only to Norway, but also to Great Britain ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"Feet, first pair long and prismatic; succeeding pairs with a compressed nephrops
... has more relation to nephrops than any olhe: genus of ..."
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