butterfly-lobster

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

a marine crustacean, socalled from the leaf-like expansion of the antennae. It is «the highly specialized macrourous decapod IbacusPeronii.» (W. A. Haswell.)

1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 248:

«Those curious crustaceans that I have heard called `butterflylobsters'. . . the shell of the head and body (properly knownas the carapace) expands into something like wing-forms,entirely hiding the legs beneath them.»

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