Decapod
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Several things share the name decapod, from the Greek decapoda meaning "ten-legged":
  • Crustaceans in the Order Decapoda
    Decapoda
    The decapods or Decapoda are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns and shrimp. Most decapods are scavengers. It is estimated that the order contains nearly 15,000 species in around 2,700 genera, with...

    , such as lobsters and crabs
  • Several steam locomotive wheel arrangements
    Whyte notation
    The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal...

     were also called Decapods, especially the 2-10-0
    2-10-0
    Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and no trailing wheels...

  • Decapod
    GER Decapod
    The GER Class A55 or Decapod was an experimental steam locomotive with an 0-10-0T wheel arrangement designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway...

     was an experimental 0-10-0
    0-10-0
    Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-10-0 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels on five axles, and no trailing wheels...

     steam locomotive built by the Great Eastern Railway
    Great Eastern Railway
    The Great Eastern Railway was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia...

    .


Also:
  • Decapodians are decapod-like fictional characters in the cartoon series Futurama
  • Decapodiformes
    Decapodiformes
    Decapodiformes is a superorder of Cephalopoda, which includes all species with ten limbs; the name derives from the Greek word meaning ten feet. The ten limbs are divided into 8 short arms and 2 long tentacles. It is presumed that an ancestral coleoid had five identical pairs of limbs, and that one...

     are ten-limbed cephalopods with eight arms and two tentacles

See also

  • Monopod
    Monopod
    A monopod, also called a unipod, is a single staff or pole used to help support cameras, video cameras, binoculars, rifles or other precision instruments in the field.-Camera and imaging use:...

  • Tripod
    Tripod
    A tripod is a portable three-legged frame, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. The word comes from the Greek tripous, meaning "three feet". A tripod provides stability against downward forces, horizontal forces and moments about the...

  • Tetrapod
    Tetrapod
    Tetrapods are vertebrate animals having four limbs. Amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are all tetrapods; even snakes and other limbless reptiles and amphibians are tetrapods by descent. The earliest tetrapods evolved from the lobe-finned fishes in the Devonian...

  • Hexapod (disambiguation)
    Hexapod (disambiguation)
    Hexapod , may refer to:* Subphylum Hexapoda, a group of arthropods including the insects* Hexapod , six-legged walking robots...

  • Octopod
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