gonodactyloid
English
editNoun
editgonodactyloid (plural gonodactyloids)
- (zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea
- 2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, page 610:
- The posterolateral margins are usually broadly rounded, but in Harpiosquillidae Manning, 1980, the posterolateral margins are deeply excavate, and in several gonodactyloids, the posterolateral margin is squared.
- 2017, Robert H. Gore, Crustacean Biogeography:
- It is possible that in the coral-dwelling gonodactyloids the accumulation of muscle tension and sudden release of the pendulum-like 'hammer' would impose too much stress on the muscles and skeleton of the appendage if animals were larger […]