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Definition of Branchiura
1. Noun. Copepods with suctorial mouthparts; parasitic on fishes.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Copepoda, Subclass Copepoda
Member holonyms: Fish Louse
Definition of Branchiura
1. n. pl. A group of Entomostraca, with suctorial mouths, including species parasitic on fishes, as the carp lice (Argulus).
Medical Definition of Branchiura
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Branchiura
Literary usage of Branchiura
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eúgen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The male does not increase in size, but, in the female, the posterior region of
the body becomes very much enlarged. C. branchiura. The branchiura are ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"... and the branchiura. ... The branchiura have two compound eyes. ... Suborder: (6)
branchiura KEY TO ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"Two members of the family Tubificidae were the next examples of gilled Oligochaeta
made known to science ; one of these, branchiura ..."
4. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1906)
"11, W. of Ireland ; FARRAS, n. spp. 3. branchiura. [See also T. SCOTT (272).]
branchiura, Notes on British spp. ; SCOURFIELD, J. Quekett Club (2) ix, p. 40. ..."
5. Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider (1890)
"C. branchiura. Die branchiura (Argulus) werden gewöhnlich im Anschlüsse an CLAUS (No.
68) in die nähere Verwandtschaft der Copepoden gestellt. ..."
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