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Definition of Branchiopoda
1. Noun. Primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas.
Group relationships: Class Crustacea, Crustacea
Member holonyms: Genus Daphnia, Anostraca, Order Anostraca, Notostraca, Order Notostraca, Genus Triops, Triops
Generic synonyms: Class
Derivative terms: Branchiopodous
Definition of Branchiopoda
1. n. pl. An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.
Medical Definition of Branchiopoda
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchiopoda
Literary usage of Branchiopoda
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Order I. branchiopoda. The branchiopoda are relatively large with numerous
segments, leaf-like appendages, long, chambered heart, and lack swimming antenna. ..."
2. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"Many very primitive features have been retained in the condition of the body
among the numerous forms of the branchiopoda. As such we may assume the ..."
3. A Monograph of the British Fossil Crustacea, Belonging to the Order Merostomata by Henry Woodward (1878)
"... and referred it to the class CRUSTACEA, and to the order branchiopoda. FIG.
40. ... branchiopoda."
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