Entomostraca - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: entomostracaBranchiopoda
An order of Entomostraca so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills It includes the fresh water genera Branchipus Apus and Limnadia and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes It is also called Phyllopoda See Phyllopoda Cladocera It is sometimes used in a broader sense...
Branchiura
A group of Entomostraca with suctorial mouths including species parasitic on fishes as the carp lice Argulus...
Cladocera
An order of the Entomostraca...
Copepoda
An order of Entomostraca including many minute Crustacea both fresh water and marine...
Entomostraca
One of the subclasses of Crustacea including a large number of species many of them minute The group embraces several orders as the Phyllopoda Ostracoda Copepoda and Pectostraca See Copepoda Phyllopoda and Cladocera...
Entomostracan
Relating to the Entomostraca...
VerbarLernaeliga
A Linnaeligan genus of parasitic Entomostraca the same as the family Lernaeligidaelig...
VerbarMalacostraca
A subclass of Crustacea including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca or all those higher than the Entomostraca...
VerbarOstracoda
An order of Entomostraca possessing shrimplike bodies enclosed in hard bivalve shells called also seed shrimp and mussel shrimp They were formerly referred to as Ostracoidea They are of small size and swim freely about many are less than 1 mm in length Microfossils of certain extinct orders have been found extending back to the Cambrian age...
VerbarOstracoidea
An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells They are of small size and swim freely about Now usually written Ostracoda...
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