cumaceans

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A form of cumacean — Any small marine crustacean of the order Cumacea, closely related to tanaidaceans.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of cumacean

    Initial dual stable isotope analyses of nematodes, copepods and cumaceans from the formalin (4%) samples did not provide reliable dual stable isotope values and were therefore excluded from the analysis; those of polychaetes and amphipods were therefore used during these analyses.

    2015 November 12, “Benthic Trophic Interactions in an Antarctic Shallow Water Ecosystem Affected by Recent Glacier Retreat”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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