palaemonoid

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noun

Any shrimp of the superfamily Palaemonoidea

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounpalaemonoid (plural palaemonoids)

plural palaemonoids

  1. Any shrimp of the superfamily Palaemonoidea

    The other palaemonoid families are therein jointly defined primarily by the slender third maxilliped and the mandible usually with a prominent incisor.

    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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