Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Pleocyemata

1. A taxonomic suborder within the order Decapoda – decapod crustaceans whose fertilised eggs are incubated by the female, and remain stuck to the pleopods (swimming legs) until they are ready to hatch..

Hyponyms

• (suborder): Achelata, Anomura, Astacidea, Axiidea, Brachyura, Caridea, Gebiidea, Glypheidea, Polychelida, Stenopodidea - infraorders