squilloid

English

Noun

squilloid (plural squilloids)

1. (zoology) A member of that taxonomic family Squillidae.
   • 2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia:

     Squilloids, eurysquilloids, parasquilloids and lysiosquilloids burrow in soft, level substrates.

   • 2013, Carel von Vaupel Klein, Mireille Charmantier-Daures, Treatise on Zoology:

     In other groups, the midband ommatidial facets are hexagonal, but vary in number from two or six (usually six) in lysiosquilloids and eurysquilloids, always two in squilloids, and two or three (usually two) in parasquilloids; […]