macruran

(məˈkrʊərən)

(Animals) any decapod crustacean of the group (formerly suborder) Macrura, which includes the lobsters, prawns, and crayfish

adj

(Zoology) of, relating to, or belonging to the Macrura

[C19: via New Latin, from Greek makros long + oura tail]

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Macruran decapods, and their epibionts, from the Lopez de Bertodano formation (Upper Cretaceous), Seymour Island, Antarctica.

The first finding of Ostrea cf. puelchana (Bivalvia) living as epibiont on Callinectes exasperates (Decapoda)/Primeiro registro de Ostrea cf. puelchana (Bivalvia) vivendo como epibionte sobre Callinectes exasperates (Decapoda)

Boone, "A collection of anomuran and macruran crustacea from the bay of panama and the fresh waters of the Canal Zone," Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol.

Sexual shape dimorphism of the mangrove crab Ucides cordatus (Linnaeus, 1763) (Decapoda, Ucididae) accessed through geometric morphometric

His subsequent work (Drach 1944) on the macruran Leander serratus confirmed there is a certain amount of generality for this concept in decapod crustaceans.