Bathysquilloid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bathysquilloid is a noun meaning (zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.
Meaning
(zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.
Example Sentences
The tergite of the thoracic somites is smooth in most stomatopods, but is variously carinate in squilloids, bathysquilloids, parasquilloids and eurysquilloids.
Among the synapomorphies of the bathysquilloids is the elaborate ornamentation of the female gonopore, described in detail by Bruce (1988). This gonopore ornamentation is unique to the bathysquilloids, […]
Word Forms
- bathysquilloids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eurysquilloid, squilla, squillid, tetrasquillid, squill, eurysquillid.
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