Within the order Decapoda are quite a few creatures with which we are very familiar and which we often see on the dinner plate.
Decapoda Order
Decapoda | Where are your legs?
DECAPODA: Where are those ten legs!
Crabs, Lobsters, Shrimp? I'm counting the legs!
If you search on-line to try to find more information on Decapoda, you may become more confused than you were when you started out. If your schooling in the Classics has…
Decapoda | Finding our Prawns?
Let's look in more detail at Decapoda and Palaemonidae as jumbo prawns (and shrimp) are all members of Decapoda (so named for having ten feet - although that can be a bit of a stretch to imagine in some Decapoda).