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n. - Animals having eight short tentacles plus two long ones; Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax.

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  • I doubt that decapod crustaceans do not have thermal receptors.
  • Project SQUID was named after the jet-propelled decapod of the sea.
  • Annotated checklist of marine decapod Crustacea from Shark Bay, Western Australia.
  • Carcinization as an underlying synapomorphy for the decapod crustacean taxon Meiura.
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