Tetradecapoda
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Etymology
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Proper noun
Tetradecapoda
- (obsolete) A taxonomic group within the class Malacostraca – fourteen-legged crustaceans that lack a carapace and possess sessile compound eyes, with thoracic coxae fused to their pleurites; now not thought to be of common descent.
Synonyms
- (group): Edriophthalma, Acaridea, Arthrostraca - groups
Hyponyms
- (group): Isopoda, Amphipoda - orders
References
- Tetradecapoda at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Tetradecapoda in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Tetradecapoda at National Center for Biotechnology Information