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seed shrimp
noun
- any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.
Example Sentences
Another 1958 study showed that the golden sweeper used the same version of luciferin, too, and hypothesized that it came from snacking on seed shrimp.
But for a plant, its diet is impressive: seed shrimp, shell-less crustaceans, insect larvae, and occasionally even tadpoles and small fish.
They looked at 93 species of tiny crustaceans called ostracods, or seed shrimp, that lived between about 84 million and 66 million years ago.
As you saw, they have little shrimp-like bodies without clearly defined segments sandwiched between their bivalved shell, an appearance that has also inspired the name “seed shrimpâ€.
He chose as his subject a crustacean sometimes known as seed shrimp that emits a striking blue light and is plentiful in the waters around Japan.
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