Definition of Notostraca

1. Noun. Small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace.

Exact synonyms: Order Notostraca
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Branchiopoda, Subclass Branchiopoda
Member holonyms: Family Triopidae, Triopidae

Lexicographical Neighbors of Notostraca

Nothofagus menziesii
Nothofagus obliqua
Nothofagus procera
Nothofagus solanderi
Nothofagus truncata
Nothosauria
Notoedres cati
Notomys
Notonecta
Notonecta undulata
Notonectidae
Notornis mantelli
Notoryctidae
Notoryctus
Notoryctus typhlops
Notostraca (current term)
Notowitz
Notropis
Notropis atherinoides
Notropis cornutus
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
Notts
Nou Camp
Nouakchott
Noughties
Nouméa
Nouruz
Nouvelle Vague
Nov

Literary usage of Notostraca

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The second antennae are vestigial or absent in the Notostraca; ... In female Notostraca the limbs of the eleventh trunk somite are modified to form ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... Notostraca, Conchostraca, involving a termination already appropriated to higher divisions of the Crustacean class, for which it ought to be reserved. i ..."

3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1868)
"Moreover, there appear to be significant differences in salt balance mechanisms among the Notostraca. NEAR-ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT RECEPTION IN MALLARDS AND ..."

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