gonodactyloid

English

Noun

gonodactyloid (plural gonodactyloids)

1. (zoology) Any mantis shrimp in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea
   • 2000, Australian Journal of Zoology, volume 48, page 610:

     The posterolateral margins are usually broadly rounded, but in Harpiosquillidae Manning, 1980, the posterolateral margins are deeply excavate, and in several gonodactyloids, the posterolateral margin is squared.

   • 2017, Robert H. Gore, Crustacean Biogeography:

     It is possible that in the coral-dwelling gonodactyloids the accumulation of muscle tension and sudden release of the pendulum-like 'hammer' would impose too much stress on the muscles and skeleton of the appendage if animals were larger […]