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, volume 3, →DOI:
      In many reptantian crustaceans, the fast flexor muscles are used in two distinct forms of tailflipping.
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