decapodan

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of decapod.

   The decapodan crustaceans are a large and diverse group of primarily marine animals.

   1991, A. J. Woakes, M. K. Grieshaber, C. R. Bridges, Physiological Strategies for Gas Exchange and Metabolism, →ISBN, page 79

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   However, no decapodan crustaceans have yet been found in any of the numerous abyssopelagic and bottom samples from depths greater than 6,000 m.

   1972, G. M. Beli︠a︡ev, L. A. Zenkevich, Hadal Bottom Fauna of the World Ocean, page 73

   Based on the different results given by various authors, on personal communications from colleagues and on personal observations, the crucial developmental steps in the formation of the nervous system in decapodan and octopodan cephalopods are reviewed.

   2012, M.A. Ali, Nervous Systems in Invertebrates, →ISBN, page 444

plural decapodans

1. alternativeAlternative form of decapod.

   These studies are important from biological aspects of the decapodans.

   1998, “Egg Carrying Capacity of Two Pleopods in Two Estuarine Prawns, Palaemon Styliferus and Macrobrachium Mirabilis”, in Pakistan Journal of Zoology, volume 30, number 3

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   The shrimp is, of course, a crustacean, a cousin, many times removed, of the crab and the lobster, and the famous crayfish, of whom Professor Huxley has written so admirably and exhaustively; but we need not dwell on the fact, or generalise him at length into the macrourans and decapodans.

   1887, William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

   The first morphological study of HPT in the crayfish, Astacus, and several other decapodans was made 100 years ago (Cyebitm 1893), and HPT of many crustaceans have been investigated later mainly by means of light microscopy (for reviews see Johnson, 1980; Bauchau, 1981).

   1995, Animal Biology, page 60