ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to or characteristic of the subclass Branchiopoda
NOUN
- aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
How To Use branchiopod In A Sentence
- 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.
- Tadpole shrimp are large branchiopod crustaceans that occur in arctic Canada and on the prairies. Crustacea
- Branchiopod characters include endites with setae turned backwards, the elongation of the telson, and its fluke-shaped rami.
- 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.
- In short, she was a branchiopod, to be vulgarly precise, a water-flea. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
- The two-part, hinged carapace encloses the entire body, similar to the branchiopod Conchostraca.
- They have elongate bodies compared to most other living branchiopods, with leaf-like appendages that they use to swim belly up.
- Freshwater bivalves, snails, and branchiopod Crustacea were common.
- One such androdioecious branchiopod is the clam shrimp Eulimnadia texana.
- Freshwater bivalves, snails, and branchiopod Crustacea were common.