bathysquilloid
English
editEtymology
editClipping of translingual Bathysquilloidea
Noun
editbathysquilloid (plural bathysquilloids)
- (zoology) A mantis shrimp in the superfamily Bathysquilloidea.
- 2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, numbers 4-6, page 625:
- 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, […]
- 2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:
- The tergite of the thoracic somites is smooth in most stomatopods, but is variously carinate in squilloids, bathysquilloids, parasquilloids and eurysquilloids.