Crossword-Solution: DECAPOD 7 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

They dig somewhat after the manner of the fluviatile long-tailed decapod crustaceans, of the genera Thoracostraca, the common crawfish, you know.

Mecznikow has recently observed the development of _Nebalia,_ and concludes from his observations “that _Nebalia,_ during its embryonal life, passes through the Nauplius- and Zoëa-stages, which in the Decapoda occur partly (in _Penëus_) in the free state.” “Therefore,” says he, “I regard Nebalia as a Phyllopodiform Decapod.” The youngest larvæ [of the Phyllopoda] are Nauplii, which we have already met with exceptionally in some Prawns, and which we shall now find reproduced almost without exception.

The Hermit-crab (_Pagurus Bernhardus_) is a Decapod Crustacean--that is to say, he resembles a very small Crab.

Finally, I may remark that in Pollicipes, looking to the whole nervous system, the state of concentration nearly equals that in certain macrourous decapod crustaceans, for instance the _Astacus marinus_, of which a figure is given by Milne Edwards.

Owen in strongly opposing this identification, and in regarding such tentacle as the equivalent of a whole lobe or arm of a Decapod or Octopod Dibranch.