Notostraca

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Noun1.Notostraca - small freshwater crustaceans with a shield-shaped carapace
animal order - the order of animals
Branchiopoda, subclass Branchiopoda - primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans: fairy shrimps; brine shrimps; tadpole shrimps; can shrimps; water fleas
family Triopidae, Triopidae - a family of Notostraca
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Copepoda, Ostracoda and Branchiopoda (Cladocera (Diplostrasca), Conchostraca, Notostraca and Anostraca) are the most abundant among microcrustacean groups frequently found in freshwater/inland systems such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, phytothelmas, and wetlands (Thorp and Covich, 2001)
These potholes are inhabited by numerous organisms adapted to this alternating wet--dry cycle, including fairy shrimp (Anostraca) Branchinecta packardi and Streptocephalus texanus, clam shrimp Leptestheria compleximanus and Eulimnadia inflecta, and tadpole shrimp (Notostraca) Triops longicaudatus (Graham, http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/ sw/impacts/biology/vernal).
The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway: 12, Notostraca and Conchastraca.
En 19 capitulos se explican los variados y diferentes grupos taxonomicos de Crustacea, principalmente marinos y de lagunas costeras, tratados en: "Decapoda", "Cladocera", "Copepoda", "Peracarida", "Cirripedia", "Oniscidea", "Remipedia", "Lophogastrida y Mysida", "Branchiopoda: Anostraca", "Branchiopoda: Cyclestherida, Laevicaudata, and Spinicaudata", "Branchiopoda: Notostraca", "Amphipoda", "Stomatopoda", "Euphausiacea", "Cumacea", "Leptostraca", "Tanaidacea", "Ostracoda" y "Brachiura".
Some taxa that are commonly sampled in these temporary environments include Anostraca, Notostraca, Conchostraca, Cladocera, Ostracoda, Corixidae, Notonectidae, Dytiscidae, and Hydrophilidae (Hutchinson 1932; Rzoska 1961; Weir 1969; Williams 1985; Seaman et al.
Introduction and establishment of tadpole shrimp Triops newberryi (Notostraca: Triopsidae) in a date garden for biological control of mosquitoes in Coachella Valley, southern California.
Field introductions and establishment of the tadpole shrimp, Triops longicaudatus (Notostraca: Triopsidae), a biological-control agent of mosquitoes.
Tadpole shrimp, Triops longicaudatus (Le-Conte) (Notostraca: Triopsidae), are pests in California rice production systems.
Thiery, A.--1987--Les Crustaces Branchiopodes Anostraca, Notostraca et Conchostraca des milieux limniques temporaires (Dayas) au Maroc.Taxonomie, biogeographie, ecologie.
Insects, Notostraca, and Conchostraca are also frequent, mostly in the Salagou Formation (see infra).
Their planktonic fish belong to many genera of branchiopods (of the orders Anostraca, Conchostraca, and Notostraca) and copepods.
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