the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > member of (9)
Formerly, like German krebs, a general name for all the larger edible crustacea. Obsolete.
A member of the Decapoda; a ten-footed crustacean; also, a ten-armed cephalopod; in plural = Decapoda, n.
Subcategories:
— member other than crab (1)
— limb bearing chelae (1)
— concretion in stomach (4)
— gills (1)