reptantian

English

Etymology

Reptantia +‎ -an

Noun

reptantian (plural reptantians)

1. Any decapod of the clade Reptantia.
   • 2015, Zen Faulkes, M Fabiana Kubke, “Motor neurons in the escape response circuit of white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus)”, in PeerJ‎^[1], volume 3, →DOI:

     In many reptantian crustaceans, the fast flexor muscles are used in two distinct forms of tailflipping.