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Definition of Order Xiphosura
1. Noun. Horseshoe crabs and extinct forms.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Merostomata, Merostomata
Member holonyms: Family Limulidae, Limulidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Xiphosura
Literary usage of Order Xiphosura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"order Xiphosura. The Xiphosura is a group which possesses many Crustacean
peculiarities, and also many foreign to that group and more especially ..."
2. A Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Belonging to the Order Merostomata by Henry Woodward (1878)
"... and order Xiphosura. Mr. Baily also approves and cites Pictet's ... in the
order Xiphosura.4 In a communication to the Geological Society in 1866,6 I ..."
3. North American Index Fossils by Amadeus William Grabau, Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1910)
"Order XIPHOSURA Gronovius. Crustacea-like forms; body in mature types distinctly
... order Xiphosura ..."
4. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1881)
"The second sub-order, xiphosura, are characterized by Woodward as follows: "Crustacea
having the anterior segments welded together to form a broad, ..."
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