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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A division of cladocerous crustaceans, a suborder of Cladocera, having a well-developed shell including the limbs, and broad lamellar ambulatory feet, not distinctly segmented: contrasted with Gymnomera. It contains such families as Daphniidœ and Lynceidœ.

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