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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of cumacean crustaceans in which the first antennas have both flagella well developed and nearly equal, the male has three pairs of pleopods or none, and the telson is distinct, with three or more terminal spines. It includes the genera Lamprops, Hemilamprops, Paralamprops, Platyaspis, and Chalarostylis.

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