making up the bulk of the remainder. The earliest fossils of the group date to the Devonian.

Anatomy

Decapods can have as many as 38 appendages, arranged in one pair per body segment. As the name Decapoda (from the Greek ????, deca-, "ten", and ????]] / ???, -pod, "foot") implies, ten of these appendages are considered legs. They are the pereiopods, found on the last

1.Previous
3.Next