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noun - tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
Any of various minute, chiefly freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a bivalve carapace.
noun - a minute freshwater crustacean
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Any of various minute, chiefly freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a bivalve carapace. |
tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell |
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Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 70,000 species (only 13,000 of which are extant) have been identified, grouped into several orders. They are small crustaceans, typically around 1 mm (0.039 in) in size, but varying from 0.2 to 30 mm (0.0079 to 1.1811 in) in the case of Gigantocypris. Their bodies are flattened from side to side and protected by a bivalve-like, chitinous or calcareous valve or "shell". The hinge of the two valves is in the upper (dorsal) region of the body. Ostracods are grouped together based on gross morphology, but the group may not be monophyletic; their molecular phylogeny remains ambiguous.Ecologically, marine ostracods can be part of the zooplankton or (most commonly) are part of the benthos, living on or inside the upper layer of the sea floor. Many ostracods, especially the Podocopida, are also found in fresh water, and terrestrial species of Mesocypris are known from humid forest soi |