Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- proper n. A taxonomic class within the subphylum Crustacea — the ostracods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- plural proper n. 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.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as Ostracopoda.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. seed shrimps
Etymologies
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On a new terrestrial genus and species of Scottiinae Crustacea, Ostracoda from Australia, with a discussion on the phylogeny and the zoogeography of the subfamily, Zoologischer Anzeiger, 243:21-36.
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Living males of the 'ancient asexual' Darwinulidae Ostracoda: Crustacea.
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In the Ostracoda, Zenker describes a gland situated in the base of the inferior antennae, and opening at the extremity of an extraordinarily long "spine."
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Diastylidae, the Amphipoda and Isopoda, the Ostracoda and Daphnidae, the
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Cirripedia to the Ostracoda is also spoken of, but the similarity of the so-called "Cypris-like larvae," or Cirriped-pupae as Darwin calls them, to Cypris is so purely external, even as regards the shell, that the relationship appears to me to be scarcely greater than that of
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* Additional Notes on the Clodocera and Ostracoda of
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* Notes on the Clodocera, Ostracoda and Rotifera of
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Claus), Ostracoda (at least the Cypridinae), Diastylidae, Edriophthalma, and Podophthalma, with few exceptions relating to terrestrial animals or parasites, bear peculiar filaments which I have already repeatedly mentioned as "olfactory filaments."
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