Definition of Order Xiphosura

1. Noun. Horseshoe crabs and extinct forms.

Exact synonyms: Xiphosura
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Merostomata, Merostomata
Member holonyms: Family Limulidae, Limulidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Xiphosura

order Torpediniformes
order Tremellales
order Trichoptera
order Trogoniformes
order Tuberales
order Tubulidentata
order Tulostomatales
order Ulvales
order Umbellales
order Uredinales
order Urodella
order Uropygi
order Urticales
order Ustilaginales
order Volvocales
order Xiphosura (current term)
order Xyridales
order Zeomorphi
order Zygnemales
order Zygnematales
order arms
order book
order code
order form
order in council
order mantophasmatodea
order oedogoniales
order of Saint Benedict
order of business
order of knighthood

Literary usage of Order Xiphosura

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Invertebrate Morphology by James Playfair McMurrich (1896)
"order Xiphosura. The Xiphosura is a group which possesses many Crustacean peculiarities, and also many foreign to that group and more especially ..."

2. A Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Belonging to the Order Merostomata by Henry Woodward (1878)
"... and order Xiphosura. Mr. Baily also approves and cites Pictet's ... in the order Xiphosura.4 In a communication to the Geological Society in 1866,6 I ..."

3. North American Index Fossils by Amadeus William Grabau, Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1910)
"Order XIPHOSURA Gronovius. Crustacea-like forms; body in mature types distinctly ... order Xiphosura ..."

4. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1881)
"The second sub-order, xiphosura, are characterized by Woodward as follows: "Crustacea having the anterior segments welded together to form a broad, ..."

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