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from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of caridean macrurous crustaceans having all of the trunk-legs similar in structure, simple, six-jointed, with the fifth joint not subdivided, and with the first five pairs carrying exopods. It includes the genera Procletes, Icotopus, Eretmocaris, and Hectarthropus, the last being the type.
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