Definition of Subclass entomostraca

1. Noun. In some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use.

Exact synonyms: Entomostraca
Group relationships: Class Crustacea, Crustacea
Generic synonyms: Class

Literary usage of Subclass entomostraca

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 Copepoda are an order of Crustacea, belonging to the subclass Entomostraca. This subclass cannot be easily defined ..."

2. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"They are classified as follows : — Subclass : Entomostraca. Order: Trilobites. Xiphosura. Phyllopoda, Cladocera. Ostracoda. Copepoda. ..."

3. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"... (in the broad sense) relative to the other groups: subclass entomostraca [following the Subclass Malacostraca] Order 6. ..."

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