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Definition of Order Decapoda
1. Noun. Lobsters; crayfish; crabs; shrimps; prawns.
Exact synonyms: Decapoda
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
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.
Exact synonyms: Decapoda
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
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Decapoda
Literary usage of Order Decapoda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"Order DECAPODA. Body naked. Head separate, with ten fleshy arms, the two longer
arms furnished ... Order DECAPODA."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"All the members embraced within the three divisions of the preceding order (Decapoda)
... whilst the carapace, so largely Developed in the order Decapoda, ..."
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