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megalops

[ meg-uh-lops ]

noun

Zoology.
  1. the larval stage of marine crabs immediately prior to and resembling the adult stage.


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Origin of megalops1

1850–55; < New Latin, originally a genus name, equivalent to Greek megal- megal- + á¹Ëð²õ eye, face
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Megalops atlanticus inhabits the warm tropical and semitropical waters of the Atlantic.

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Using a handy guide provided, Matthias pointed out the critter was a zoea, a very young crab moving into the next stage of its life, a megalops.

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Alex Phillips and his colleagues are adapting the bodily characteristics of the Atlantic cranch squid, Teuthowenia megalops, for their AUV.

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This is the home of Megalops atlanticus, the tarpon.

It is also the case with the abdomen of the Zoeae of the Crabs, the Porcellanae, and the Tatuira, which is still powerful, although usually bent under the breast; the two last swim tolerably by means of the abdomen, even when adult, as do the true Crabs in the young state known as Megalops.

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