Meanings
nounvampyropod (plural vampyropods)
plural vampyropods
- rareA member of the proposed group Vampyropoda (equivalent to the superorder Octopodiformes), comprising vampire squid and octopuses; an octopodiform.
Ancestral vampyropods diverged from the ancestors of squid way back in the Triassic.
2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 1191 more example
[T]he ultimate question is whether belemnoids and decapods are sister groups, or whether belemnoids and vampyropods are sister groups.
1999, Federico Olóriz, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, editors, Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods, Springer Science+Business Media, page 10
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