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Meaning of "ostracods"
A small crustacean with a bivalve carapace, found in both freshwater and marine habitats. It is an important part of many aquatic ecosystems
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The spectacular mating display of ostracods.
Ostracods and fireflies use bioluminescence to find potential mates.
Cylindroleberididae is a family of ostracods that shows remarkable morphological diversity.
Ostracods store a volatile cocktail of chemicals inside their bodies.
Food consists largely of ostracods and digestion appears to be periodic.
Ostracods are a class of crustaceans sometimes known as seed shrimp.
Ten groups of foraminiferous species and four of ostracods are individualized.
Ostracods of this group often have a dorsoposterior spine on the carapace.
They may be ostracods.
Ostracods store enough of these chemicals to detonate ten times in a row.
Macrophytes were collected manually for the withdrawal of ostracods associated with them.
Copepods and ostracods were more abundant in spawning areas after nest construction.
Other significant marine forms of minute size were the ostracods and calpionellids.
Ostracods in the lake include Limnocythere species.
The zones where the two waters mix are attractive to ostracods and young fish.
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Ten species of freshwater ostracods were ingested by Catostomus commersoni.
Ostracods remained common in the Tertiary seas of Texas.
Palaeocopida is an extinct order of ostracods in the subclass Podocopas.
Ostracods and insects were diverse, and bivalves and gastropods were abundant.
The morphology of the Baikal ostracods is highly diverse.
They close with lacustrine limestones containing stromatolites, charophytes, and ostracods.
The Podocopida are an order of ostracods in the subclass Podocopa.
This age is defined by the fossils contained in the rocks, mainly foraminifera and ostracods.
It is one of the most common freshwater ostracods in the United States.
The recognized ostracods belong to Palaeocopida, Podocopida and Myodocopida.
These include the dinoflagellates such as Noctiluca and ostracods such as Cypridina and Vargula.
They are typically ectoparasites that infest copepods, isopods, tanaids, amphipods and ostracods.
Young fish feed on cladocerans, ostracods and chironomid larvae.
Top Biology? This species feeds on benthos, mainly amphipods, midge larvae and ostracods.
Most of planktonic foraminifera and ostracods are smaller than or around 1 mm in size.
And they contain animal life, wonderful creatures such as brachiopods, ostracods and trilobites.
Vargulin is found in certain ostracods and deep-sea fish, to be specific, Poricthys.
Small crustaceans, such as copepods, clasocerans, and ostracods are also a part of their diet.
Bioluminescence = = = Some ostracods have a light organ in which they produce luminescent chemicals.
This specimen collection included included 93 species of ostracods that lived between 85 and 65 million years ago.
