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peracarid, n. (and a.)|pɛrəˈkærɪd| [f. mod.L. name of division Peracarida (W. T. Calman 1904, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 7th Ser. XIII. 150), f. Gr. πήρα pouch + καρίς shrimp, prawn: see -id3.] A crustacean belonging to the division of the subclass Malacostraca so called, including sand-hoppers and woodlice possessing brood pouches. Also as adj. So peraˈcaridan, peracaˈridean a.
1931W. Schmitt Crustaceans in Shelled Invertebr. of Past & Present ii. iii. 156 The two final orders comprising the peracarids. 1961H. Schöne in T. H. Waterman Physiol. Crustacea II. xiii. 486 Female peracaridans carry eggs and young in a marsupium between their legs. 1965B. E. Freeman tr. Vandel's Biospeleol. ix. 117 Spelaeogriphus is most certainly the last relict of a primitive peracarid type. 1965W. Schmitt Crustaceans iii. 88 This [sc. Spelaeogriphacea] is one of the most recently established of the six peracaridean orders. Ibid. 89 The Spelaeogriphacea differ from all other peracaridans in having vesicular, oval gills. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 518 The first group includes the peracarids Gnatha oxyurea, Eriopisia elongata..and also many (better known) decapods. |