order decapoda

1. Lobsters;
   Crayfish;
   Crabs;
   Shrimps;
   Prawns (synset 101978521)
   is a type of: animal order - the order of animals
   member holonym:

   • decapod, decapod crustacean - crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax
   • reptantia, suborder reptantia - lobsters; crabs
   • family nephropsidae, nephropsidae - in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae
   • family palinuridae, palinuridae - spiny lobsters
   • astacidae, astacura, family astacidae - crayfish
   • family paguridae, paguridae - hermit crabs
   • natantia, suborder natantia - shrimp; prawns; etc.
   belongs to: malacostraca, subclass malacostraca - largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies
   same as: decapoda
2. Squids and cuttlefishes (synset 101973507)
   is a type of: animal order - the order of animals
   member holonym:

   • decapod - cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
   • genus loligo - squids
   • genus ommastrephes - a genus of Decapoda
   • genus architeuthis - giant squid
   • family sepiidae, sepiidae - true cuttlefishes
   • family spirulidae, spirulidae - coextensive with the genus Spirula; included in the order Belemnoidea in some older classifications
   belongs to: dibranchia, dibranchiata, subclass dibranchia, subclass dibranchiata - comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish)
   same as: decapoda

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