POLYCHELIDA WOOD-MASON, 1874
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Felipe |
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INFRAORDER POLYCHELIDA WOOD-MASON, 1874 View in CoL
Unlike the spiny lobsters, the flatback lobsters are deep-water benthic species with elongated chelae, held folded against the sides of the cephalothorax in life. The animals have eyestalks but are blind. The larval stage (the "eryonicus" larva) has an inflated cephalothorax filled with lipids.
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