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 crustacean, branchiopodan |
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Narrower | brine shrimp, Artemia salina | Common to saline lakes |
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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 |
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Spanish | branchiopodan, branquiópodo |
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Catalan | branquiòpede |
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