Resembling or characteristic of Erichthus crustaceans, used to describe similar forms or characteristics in classification.
From Erichthus plus -oid suffix (Greek -oeides meaning resembling), a standard taxonomic suffix for describing similar morphologies.
The -oid suffix is so useful in biology that scientists have created thousands of words with it—'humanoid,' 'deltoid,' and 'erichtoid' all follow the same logical pattern of 'looks like X.'
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