branchiopod crustacean

Noun
  1. Aquatic crustaceans typically having a carapace and many pairs of leaflike appendages used for swimming as well as respiration and feeding (synset 101997146)
    is a type of: crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
    subtypes:
    • daphnia, water flea - minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
    • fairy shrimp - small freshwater branchiopod having a transparent body with many appendages; swims on its back
    • artemia salina, brine shrimp - common to saline lakes
    • tadpole shrimp - a kind of branchiopod crustacean
    same as: branchiopod, branchiopodan

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