Decapod
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
(dk´pd´´) (Gr.,=10 feet), name for invertebrate animals of the crustacean order Decapoda (phylum Arthropoda) including the crabs, the lobsters and crayfish, and the true shrimps, ...
Order Decapoda (crabs, shrimp, and relatives)
Suborder Dendrobranchiata
Superfamily Penaeoidea (penaeoid shrimps) ...
[edit] Decapoda
Astacus astacus
Calappa hepatica
Carcinus maenas
Crangon crangon
Grapsus grapsus
Homarus gammarus (European lobster)
Hyas araneus (Great spider crab)
Nephrops norvegicus (Norway lobster)
Pagurus bernhardus ...
Decapod crustaceans,
Decapoda,
Decapods
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True Decapods are first met with in Mesozoic rocks, the first to appear being the Penaeidea, a primitive group comprising the Penaeidae and Sergestidae, which occur in the Jurassic and perhaps in the Trias.
Order Decapoda
Family Palaemonidae
Macrobrachium rosenbergii - Freshwater prawn
Periclimenes pedersoni - Anemone shrimp ...
ORDER: Decapoda (crabs, shrimp, and relatives)
FAMILY: Ocypodidae (ghost crabs and fiddler crabs)
GENUS: Ocypode (20 species) ...
infernalis (Chun, 1903), which translates to "vampire squid from Hell", is the only known member of the Order Vampyromorphida, the seventh order in the Class Cephalopoda and combines features from both octopodiformes (octopuses) and decapodiformes ...
A: Decorator crabs, and other large crabs called Decapods, first lay eggs. These eggs are carried by the mother outside her body, under a flap called her abdomen, or telson.
Shrimp belong to the Class Crustacea and Order Decapoda, which is characterized by two pair of antennae, three body parts, and five pairs of legs. The head of Shrimp is connected to the thorax and covered by a shell called carapace.
They are known to feed primarily on small crustaceans such as decapods, copepods and euphausiids. All males captured have been much smaller than females at a maximum of c. 3.5 centimetres.
Arctic cod, capelin, decapods, amphipods, crustaceans, and pelagic fish.
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Forages primarily by walking on ground, or less frequently by hopping or climbing through vegetation. Uses relatively long, slender bill to probe in mud and glean vegetation for insects, spiders, decapods, amphipods, mollusks, marine worms, ...
Los crustáceos (Stomatopoda y Decapoda, excepto Anomura), del Parque Nacional de Coiba, Pacífico de Panamá
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Louse
Louvar, Luvarus imperialis (Rafinesque, 1810) ...
 See also: Crustacean, Shell, Shrimp, Crab, Lobster
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