A small aquatic crustacean of the class Branchiopoda, such as a water flea or fairy shrimp.
Example sentencesExamples
They have elongate bodies compared to most other living branchiopods, with leaf-like appendages that they use to swim belly up.
At the same time, both genera have well-developed, multiannulate first antennae, whereas modern branchiopods have dwarfed first antennae without much of annulation or segmentation at all.
Freshwater bivalves, snails, and branchiopod Crustacea were common.
One such androdioecious branchiopod is the clam shrimp Eulimnadia texana.
The two-part, hinged carapace encloses the entire body, similar to the branchiopod Conchostraca.
Definition of branchiopod in US English:
branchiopod
nounˈbraNGkēəˌpäd
Zoology
A small aquatic crustacean of the class Branchiopoda, such as a water flea or fairy shrimp.
Example sentencesExamples
They have elongate bodies compared to most other living branchiopods, with leaf-like appendages that they use to swim belly up.
One such androdioecious branchiopod is the clam shrimp Eulimnadia texana.
The two-part, hinged carapace encloses the entire body, similar to the branchiopod Conchostraca.
At the same time, both genera have well-developed, multiannulate first antennae, whereas modern branchiopods have dwarfed first antennae without much of annulation or segmentation at all.
Freshwater bivalves, snails, and branchiopod Crustacea were common.