a. and sb. Zool. [f. mod.L. Stomatopoda neut. pl., later and more correct form for Latreille’s Stomapoda: see STOMAPOD.] a. adj. Belonging to the Stomatopoda, an order of malacostracous crustaceans, orig. (in form Stomapoda: see STOMAPOD) synonymous with Gastrura, now restricted to the family Squillidæ. b. sb. A stomatopod crustacean.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., vi. 361. I believe that the tergum of the seventh (or first thoracic) somite is obsolete, as in a Stomatopod.
So Stomatopodous a. = prec. a.
