| NOUN | animal | branchiopod crustacean, branchiopod, branchiopodan | aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding |
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| Meaning | aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding. | |
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| Synonyms | branchiopod, branchiopodan | |
| Narrower | brine shrimp, Artemia salina | Common to saline lakes |
| daphnia, water flea | minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell | |
| fairy shrimp | small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages | |
| tadpole shrimp | A kind of branchiopod crustacean | |
| Broader | crustacean | Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton |
| Spanish | branchiopodan, branquiópodo | |
| Catalan | branquiòpede | |
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