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Definition of Entomostraca

Entomostraca
Entomostraca En`to*mos"tra*ca, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? cut in pieces + ? burnt clay, the hard shell of Testacea.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several orders; as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and Pectostraca. See Copepoda, Phyllopoda, and Cladocera.

Meaning of Entomostraca from wikipedia

- Entomostraca is a historical subclass of crustaceans, no longer in technical use. It was originally considered one of the two major lineages of crustaceans...
- in Aquis Daniæ Palustribus detectæ et descriptæ (Leipzig, 1781), and Entomostraca (1785), describe many species of microorganisms previously unknown, amongst...
- strongly support monophyletic Pancrustacea and places Malacostraca + Entomostraca and Branchiopoda as the sister clade to Hexapoda and places Cirripedia...
- Gr**** ὄστρειον (óstreion), ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō), ὄστρακον (óstrakon) Entomostraca, Leptostraca, Malacostraca, ostracism, ostracize, ostracod, ostracoderm...
- and their relatives). Vladicaris Georges Cuvier (1851). "Crustacean Entomostraca (Müller)". The animal kingdom: arranged after its organization, forming...
- of United States (Alabama). Jones, T. R. (1856). "Notes on the Entomostraca (Entomostraca of the Osborne and Hampstead series)". Memoirs of the Geological...
- crustaceans outside the Malacostraca, and named after the obsolete taxon Entomostraca. The class Malacostraca includes about 40,000 species, and "arguably...
- Georges Cuvier (trans. William Benjamin Carpenter) (1851). "Crustacean Entomostraca (Müller)". The animal kingdom: arranged after its organization, forming...
- ostracods in the family Cyprididae. Sars, G.O. 1895: On some South-African Entomostraca raised from dried mud. Skrifter i Videnskabs-Selskabet, I. Mathematisk-Naturvidenskabs...
- considered the Eurypteridae to be a group of crustaceans within the order Entomostraca, closely related to horseshoe crabs. A fourth genus, Slimonia, based...