| A similar dispersal mechanism has been suggested as responsible for the faunal similarities in mollusks and decapods. |
| Anthony Rice has used morphology of zoea to develop phylogenies of subsets of decapods that provides a different insight into relationships. |
| By any measure, decapods are underrepresented in the fossil record by comparison with organisms with more heavily calcified exoskeletons. |
| It is also highly unusual to discover these Paleozoic relics associated with decapods as they normally inhabit different environments. |
| Throughout the euphausiids, decapods, and stomatopods, larvae invariably possess compound eyes, which are naturally complicated structures. |
| The rest of the group is sometimes pulled together loosely as the reptant decapods. |
