kloedenellid

plural kloedenellids

1. biologyAny of a group of small, Paleozoic seed shrimps, noted for their distinct shell shapes.

   The difference between the kloedenellids and the geisinids , as defined , is the development of an anterodorsal process in the former.

   1978, Robert Vernon Kesling, Ruth B. Chilman, Ostracods of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation

   2 more examples

   This is also done for Dizygopleura landesi Roth and Eukloedenella pontotocensis Lundin, new species, which illustrate domiciliar (kloedenellid) dimorphism.

   1965, Robert F. Lundin, Bulletin - Issue 108, page 18

   According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids, monotiopleurids and leperditellids.

   1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188