macrurann.adj.
/məˈkrʊərən/, U.S. /məˈkrʊrən/ Zoology.
A. n.
A macrurous crustacean.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 691/1 Macrourans, Macroura.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 340 Nor are the antennules capable of being folded back into distinct chambers in any Macruran at present known.
1940 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 6) I. viii. 455 Alpheus, another Macruran, makes noises by clapping together the fixed and movable fingers of its large chelæ.
1978 Sci. Amer. Dec. 99/2 I would guess..that these two families of crustaceans are phylogenetically much more distant from the macrurans than current accounts of crustacean evolution suggest.
1995 Fisheries Sci. 61 157 Free d-amino acids were determined in the tissues of crustaceans, three macrurans and four brachyurans.
B. adj.
= macrurous adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > of or belonging to Malacostraca > of the Thoracostraca > relating to Macrura
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1902 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 202 It is not technically a crab but a Pagurid, a macruran hermit.
1978 Sci. Amer. Dec. 99/2 The square packing of the facets in the eyes of the macruran crustaceans is far from being an adventitious characteristic of the group.
1995 Paleontol. Soc. Mem. No. 43. 1 Ten species of macruran, anomuran, and brachyuran decapod crustaceans, arrayed in eight families, were collected from..the Jaguel and Roca Formations, west-central Argentina.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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