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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of oxystomatous brachyurous crustaceans, having much the same characters as the Calappidæ except that the third maxillipeds have the three terminal joints concealed beneath the triangular acute fourth joint. It includes the genera Matuta and Hepatus.

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