Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A division of anomurous crustaceans in which the appendages of the sixth segment of the pleon are not expanded and wing-like: contrasted with Pterygura.
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"Anomura apterura," Edw., which approach so nearly to the Crabs, I am unacquainted with the earliest young states of any of the species.)
Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859
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