Meanings
plural bathysquilloids
- biologyA mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.
The tergite of the thoracic somites is smooth in most stomatopods, but is variously carinate in squilloids, bathysquilloids, parasquilloids and eurysquilloids.
2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology1 more example
Among the synapomorphies of the bathysquilloids is the elaborate ornamentation of the female gonopore, described in detail by Bruce (1988). This gonopore ornamentation is unique to the bathysquilloids, […]
2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, numbers 4-6, page 625
Origin
Clipping of taxonomic name Bathysquilloidea.
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