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seed shrimp

noun

  1. any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell.


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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.

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But for a plant, its diet is impressive: seed shrimp, shell-less crustaceans, insect larvae, and occasionally even tadpoles and small fish.

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They looked at 93 species of tiny crustaceans called ostracods, or seed shrimp, that lived between about 84 million and 66 million years ago.

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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€.

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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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