Meanings
nounhymenocerid (plural hymenocerids)
plural hymenocerids
- Any shrimp of the family Hymenoceridae.
Instead, there appear to be at least two clades of Pontoniinae species (Clades I and II as per Kou et al., 2013b ; Gan et al., 2015 ), including the ex-gnathophyllid and hymenocerid genera in Clade II, and yet these two clades of Pontoniinae do not necessarily form a clade with each other ( Fig.
2015, Sammy De Grave et al., “Let’s be pals again: major systematic changes in Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda)”, in PeerJ, volume 3, →DOI
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