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bathysquilloid

bathysquilloid noun: a mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.

Noun

bathysquilloid (plural bathysquilloids)

  1. A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.
    • 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, […]2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, numbers 4-6, page 625
    • The tergite of the thoracic somites is smooth in most stomatopods, but is variously carinate in squilloids, bathysquilloids, parasquilloids and eurysquilloids.2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology

Forms of bathysquilloid

pluralbathysquilloids

Origin of bathysquilloid

Clipping of taxonomic name Bathysquilloidea.

Questions about bathysquilloid

What does bathysquilloid mean?
Bathysquilloid means a mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.
What part of speech is bathysquilloid?
Bathysquilloid is a noun.
What is the plural of bathysquilloid?
The plural of bathysquilloid is bathysquilloids.

Words near bathysquilloid in the dictionary

  1. bathyseisms
  2. bathysiderodromophobia
  3. bathysphere
  4. bathyspheres
  5. bathyspheric
  6. bathysquilloid
  7. bathysquilloids
  8. bathyteuthid
  9. bathyteuthids
  10. bathyteuthoid
  11. bathyteuthoids

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