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notopod

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Noun

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notopod (plural notopods)

  1. (zoology) In Latreille's system, a brachyurous decapod crustacean, such as a crab of the genera Homola, Dorippe, Dromia, Dynomene, Ranina.
    • 1935, John Roxborough Norman, Coast Fishes: South Atlantic:
      The notopods begin on the second or third segment and the neuropods are very variable in their segment of origin, being sometimes altogether absent from the anterior region.
  2. (entomology) An elaterid; a click beetle.

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