parasquilloid

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noun

A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Parasquilloidea.

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Meanings

nounparasquilloid (plural parasquilloids)

plural parasquilloids

  1. biologyA mantis shrimp in the superfamily Parasquilloidea.

    Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.

    2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia
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    In other groups, the midband ommatidial facets are hexagonal, but vary in number from two or six (usually six) in lysiosquilloids and eurysquilloids, always two in squilloids, and two or three (usually two) in parasquilloids; […]

    2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology
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