NOUN
- tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
How To Use ostracod In A Sentence
- This type of ornamentation is often found in crustaceans including Daphnia, many species of ostracodes, and other Cambrian bivalved arthropods such as Isoxys.
- Ostracod faunal characteristics and ecological distribution are diverse from each other in different qualitative substrates of the tidal zone.
- Additionally, I am addressing the highly neglected taxonomy of many of the marine meiofaunal groups (nematodes, copepods, ostracods, amphipods, acarines, etc).
- Bradoriids are small bivalved arthropods, historically considered to be the oldest members of the Ostracoda.
- Recent evidence suggests that the compound eyes of myodocopid ostracods may be phylogentically non-homologous to those of other arthropods.
- The oldest fossil related to all modern vertebrates, the ostracoderm a jawless, bony-plated fish, dates to about 490 million years ago. Trout and Salmon of North America
- [[ostracoderm]] s jawless fish related to present-day [[lamprey]] Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- Ostracods shed the carapace with each molt, whereas the conchostracans simply add material to the carapace as they grow.
- Adult land-locked fish eat mostly zooplankton, especially larger varieties such as copepods, cladocerans, mysids, and ostracods.
- By the Middle Devonian the armoured jawless ostracoderms were in decline, and instead the jawed fish were undergoing a great evolutionary radiation in both the sea and in freshwater.
