How To Use Decapod In A Sentence
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Fossils include foraminiferans, brachiopods, echinoids, pelecypods, cephalopods, shark teeth, fish vertebrae, as well as asteroids, gastropods, a pterosaur, a nodosaurid, and decapods.
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It is also highly unusual to discover these Paleozoic relics associated with decapods as they normally inhabit different environments.
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Detailed work on a series of isolated crustacean limb muscle preparations showed a consistent pattern of innervation among decapod crustaceans.
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The rest of the group is sometimes pulled together loosely as the reptant decapods.
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The macruran and brachyuran decapods, which are not as dependent on swimming, and therefore are less concerned with body drag, do not engage in general body grooming, with few exceptions.
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To-day the modern automobile somewhat resembles, in its outlines, across between a decapod locomotive and a steam fire-engine, or at least something concerning the artistic appearance of which the layman has very grave doubts.
The Automobilist Abroad
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To put it in perspective, the whole decapod crustacean (shrimp or prawn) fauna of Japan barely exceeds 1,600 species.
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They dig somewhat after the manner of the fluviatile long-tailed decapod crustaceans, of the genera
The Last of the Plainsmen
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The assemblage of decapods, one macruran, one anomuran and two brachyurans, is one that would be anticipated in the offshore, relatively quiet water setting of a delta front.
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These included the superorders Octopodiformes and Decapodiformes, the order Octopoda, the octopod suborder Incirrata, and the teuthoid suborder Myopsida.
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Limestones of the underlying carbonate ramp sediments are primarily packstones containing numerous foraminiferans but they do not contain decapod fossils.
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Rhizocephala belong to the group Cirripedia and are endoparasites on decapods (shrimps and crabs).
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Previous studies suggest that the site of decapod crustacean vitellogenin synthesis is the ovary, the hepatopancreas or both.
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The increase in the number descriptions of vitellogenin and vitellin has increased the ability to comprehend the differences that exist in decapod crustaceans.
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Unexpectedly, even juvenile mysids, which are never planktonic, have similar optics to those of larval euphausiids and decapods, and form refracting superposition eyes in adults.
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During the Paleocene, almost all of the decapod occurrences were in fine siliciclastic sediments.
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A similar dispersal mechanism has been suggested as responsible for the faunal similarities in mollusks and decapods.
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Assuming the Vilenjji believed the evidence of their own electronic eyes, they could reasonably come to no other conclusion than that the small quadruped and decapod were both demised and in the process of being digested.
Lost And Found
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Plankton such as euphausiids are important food for pre-grisle but amphipods and decapods are also consumed.
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By any measure, decapods are underrepresented in the fossil record by comparison with organisms with more heavily calcified exoskeletons.
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Fossils include foraminiferans, brachiopods, echinoids, pelecypods, cephalopods, shark teeth, fish vertebrae, as well as asteroids, gastropods, a pterosaur, a nodosaurid, and decapods.
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Decapoda (crabs, lobsters, and shrimps) is the most speciose group within the Malacostraca.
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His earliest research was on decapod crustaceans with the Scottish Fishery Board.
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For both decapod and octopod suckers, the maximum pressure differentials show a significant inverse correlation with sucker size.
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The breeding behaviour and migrations of the terrestrial crab Gecarcoidea natalis (Decapoda: Brachyura).
Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests
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Systematics and ecology of the land crabs (Decapoda: Coenobitidae, Grapsidae, and Gecarcinidae) of the Tokelau Islands, central Pacific.
Western Polynesian tropical moist forests
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In the paper "A new species of Cyrtomaia Miers, 1886 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae) from Micronesia" by B.R. de Forges and P.K.L. Ng in Zootaxa 1409: 61-67 (2007) a new species of Cyrtomaia deep-sea spider crab.
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In insects the Orthoptera (especially grasshoppers), and in crustaceans the Decapoda (especially caridean shrimps), Stomatopoda (mantis shrimps) and calanoid Copepoda, are the only groups to far exceed a typically small range.
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Both polar and Tethyan dispersal routes have been well documented for Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans.
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The group of decapod workers is extremely congenial and the interaction has resulted in many new collaborations.
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Shih, H. -T. , 1988. A preliminary report of crabs collected in the intertidal zone at the mouth of Tatu River ( Crustacea : Decapoda) . Bachelor's thesis, Department of Biology, Tunghai University.
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The eggs can be kept in open brood pouches or attached to the pleopods of the female, as in pleocyematan decapods, or freely released in the environment, as in penaeid shrimps.
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As this research continues, it is anticipated that studies of paleobiogeography and paleoecology will increasingly rely on data from the fossil record of the decapod Crustacea.
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No preparation was necessary for the examination of the decapod fossils.
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It has long been known that the shrimps and lobsters are the most primitive of the decapods and, in fact, have the oldest fossil records.
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Relatively little work has been done recently on decapod faunas from the Middle East.
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However, they are not true shrimp (order Decapoda), but belong to the order Mysidacea, a large, almost exclusively marine order.
Crustacea
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Throughout the euphausiids, decapods, and stomatopods, larvae invariably possess compound eyes, which are naturally complicated structures.
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Urine signals, excreted through nephropores located near the base of the antennae, are a likely source of pheromonal cues in decapods.
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A new genus and species of goneplacid crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) from the Caribbean.
All that matters
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Project SQUID was named after the jet-propelled decapod of the sea.
John B. Fenn - Autobiography
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This review will highlight recent NO research in decapod crustaceans, with an emphasis on the stomatogastric ganglion and NO's role in the specification of rhythmic motor networks.
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Studies and fisheries of pandalid shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pandalidae) in the Northern Hemisphere: A review in the XXI century eve (with special reference to Russia), pp. 9 – 31.
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea)
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The calcified cuticle of decapods comprises the hard exoskeleton of the animal and can be subdivided into four layers.
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Three decapod species are congeneric with extant species known from outer shelf and slope habitats documenting an onshore-offshore pattern of ecological preference.
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The French embassy said a year-long research of fauna conducted in the deep-sea and coastal ecosystems of Panglao Island resulted in the discovery of over 1,200 species of decapod or 10-legged crustaceans and some 6,000 species of mollusks.
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The natant decapods engage in the most extensive grooming.
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Anthony Rice has used morphology of zoea to develop phylogenies of subsets of decapods that provides a different insight into relationships.
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The decapod fossils are preserved in remarkable detail as molds and as body fossils.
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Saint-Paul, U., 1999a: The contribution of estuarine decapod larvae to marine macrozooplankton communities in Northeast Brazil.
North Brazil Shelf large marine ecosystem
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Tshudy and Feldmann made such observations on the counterpart of concretions containing macruran decapods in which the exocuticle did not exfoliate, and they recognized serpulid worms and oysters that had encrusted the host.
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Remy and Avnimelech described a lobster-like macruran decapod, which has subsequently been referred to the Stomatopoda Latreille, 1817, the mantis-shrimps.
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All decapod crustaceans and fishes were identified and enumerated, a representative subsample was measured and then all animals were returned to the system.
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Modern, skeleton-breaking predators, particularly teleosts, neoselachian sharks and rays, and decapod crustaceans, began to diversify in nearshore environments during the Jurassic Period.
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Annotated checklist of marine decapod Crustacea from Shark Bay, Western Australia.
Shark Bay, Australia
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The decapod remains were located between 0.5 and 3.0 m from a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur caudal vertebra.
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“Do you suppose the great decapod-the gods rot his tentacles for the nets he has torn and the catches he has stolen-do you suppose he lives anyplace else?”
Hokas Pokas
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Carcinization as an underlying synapomorphy for the decapod crustacean taxon Meiura.
All that matters
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DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS are frequently represented in the fossil record by their carapaces, which are composed of calcified cuticle.
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The assemblage of decapods, one macruran, one anomuran and two brachyurans, is one that would be anticipated in the offshore, relatively quiet water setting of a delta front.
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The search for the rootstock of the decapod Crustacea has resulted in the discovery of numerous Paleozoic organisms that bear some similarity to Mesozoic and Cenozoic shrimp, lobsters, and crabs.
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The freshwater crabs of Sri Lanka (Decapoda: Brachyura: Parathelphusidae).
Biological diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
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A note on aggregation behaviour and mass mortality of the spider crab Maja squinado (Herbst) (Decapoda, Majidae) in shallow water on the north Co Wexford coast.
Crabs on Roney Beach
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Although groove patterns are less common in phyllocarids than they are in the macruran decapod crustaceans, several genera do exhibit distinctive groove patterns.