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leptostracans

leptostracans is the plural of leptostracan.

Meaning of leptostracan

Noun

leptostracan (plural leptostracans)

  1. Any crustacean of the order Leptostraca.
    • In the case of leptostracans, brooding takes place ventrally between the mother’s thoracopods, which form a large basket holding the developing embryos, while brooding in thermosbaenaceans takes place dorsally under an enlarged part of the carapace, and that of isopods take place ventrally in a...2015 December 19, “Naupliar and Metanaupliar Development of Thysanoessa raschii (Malacostraca, Euphausiacea) from Godthåbsfjord, Greenland, with a Reinstatement of the Ancestral Status of the...

Questions about leptostracans

What is leptostracans the plural of?
Leptostracans is the plural of leptostracan.

Words near leptostracans in the dictionary

  1. leptosporangial
  2. leptosporangiate
  3. leptosporangiates
  4. leptosporangium
  5. leptostracan
  6. leptostracans
  7. leptotene
  8. leptotenes
  9. leptotenic
  10. leptothecate
  11. leptothecates

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