podocopid

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noun

Any ostracod of the order Podocopida

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Meanings

nounpodocopid (plural podocopids)

plural podocopids

  1. Any ostracod of the order Podocopida
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    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

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
podocopan
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Chicago

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