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- noun Plural form of
Decapod .
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Decapods are important prey items for many fish, waterfowl, and aquatic mammals.
Crustacea 2008
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Decapods have a breaking point at the base of each leg.
Crustacea 2008
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Decapods are enormously diverse ecologically, occuring throughout the world's oceans and freshwaters, from surface plankron to abyssal depths.
Crustacea 2008
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Smith interpreted the alteration in the male as a development of female secondary characters, but it is obvious from the condition in Macrura or tailed Decapods, like the lobster or crayfish, that the abdomen or tail of the male originally carried appendages similar to those of the female, and that the male character is a loss of these appendages.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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Tatuira, the Hermit Crabs, and the Prawns with Zoea-brood agree, and by which they are in common distinguished from the larvae of Peneus produced from Nauplii, forces us (it might be said) to the supposition that the common ancestor of these various Decapods quitted the egg in a similar Zoea-form.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Pagurus, the parasite also no longer required the calcareous test, in which, no doubt, the first Cirripedes settling upon these Decapods rejoiced.
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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Railroad Decapods, an Imitation of the Coast Daylight pulled by a SP GS-4 4-8-4, and two freights pulled by two famous Articulated Locomotives, a SP 4-8-8-2 Cab Forward and a UP
WN.com - Articles related to What weekend? Sunday is big business for Anil Ambani 2010
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Manifest with a GMTX GP38-2 and a Roadrailer with my NS SD70 with a Great Northern Caboose at the End. Some of the other trains that are viewed are that of a SP Coke Train pulled with a pair of Double Headed Pennsylvania Railroad Decapods, an Imitation of the Coast Daylight pulled by a SP GS-4 4-8-4, and two freights pulled by two famous Articulated Locomotives, a SP
WN.com - Articles related to What weekend? Sunday is big business for Anil Ambani 2010
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Decapods have a breaking point at the base of each leg.
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Science Fiction by the Rivals of H.G. Wells: The Last Stand of the Decapods - Frank T. Bullen
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Science Fiction By the Rivals Of H. G. Wells - Alan K. Russell Blue Tyson 2008
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