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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of brachyurous podophthalmous crustaceans, having the eyes non-retractile or retractile against the sides of the carapace, the carapace varying from subtriangular to suborbicular, the rostrum simple or bifid, and the walking-legs often very long. It includes about 40 genera, among them Inachus, Macropodia, Huenia, and Euprognatha.

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