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cladoceran Zool.|kləˈdɒsərən|
[f. mod.L. Cladocera (P. A. Latreille in Cuvier's Règne animal (1829) IV. 151), f. Gr. κλάδος branch + κέρας horn, with reference to the branched antennæ.]
A member of a sub-order of small branchiopod Crustacea, commonly known as water-fleas.
1909W. T. Calman in R. Lankester Treat. Zool. VII. iii. 42 In the aberrant Cladoceran Leptodora the oesophagus is of great length. 1932J. S. Huxley Prob. Rel. Growth 258 Form-changes in the Cladoceran Macrothrix rosea. 1953Scott & Fisher Thousand Geese ix. 99, I made a plankton net out of a handkerchief..and caught great numbers of capepods and cladocerans. |