Meanings
nounsquilloid (plural squilloids)
plural squilloids
- biologyA member of that taxonomic family Squillidae.
Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.
2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia1 more example
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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