Thalassinidea


Thalassinidea

[thə‚las·ə′nid·ē·ə] (invertebrate zoology) The mud shrimps, a group of thin-shelled, burrowing decapod crustaceans belonging to the Macrura; individuals have large chelate or subchelate first pereiopods, and no chelae on the third pereiopods.