aspidophora

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1. In Latreille's system of classification, a section of his phyllopodous branchiopods, containing the genera Apus and Lepidurus, and equivalent to the modern family Apodidæ of the order Phyllopoda. Also Aspidiphora. See Podostomata.
2. In Allman's system of classification, a suborder of polyzoans constituted for the reception of Rhabdopleura.