water flea

Noun
  1. Minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming;
    Important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms (synset 101999773)
    is a type of: copepod, copepod crustacean - minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax; some abundant in plankton and others parasitic on fish
    belongs to: genus cyclops - copepod water fleas
    same as: cyclops
  2. Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell;
    Moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae (synset 101997564)
    is a type of: branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean, branchiopodan - aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding
    belongs to: genus daphnia - water fleas
    same as: daphnia

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