cladocerann.
/kləˈdɒsərən/ Zoology.
A member of a sub-order of small branchiopod Crustacea, commonly known as water-fleas.
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Daphnia1847
daphnioid1852
cladoceran1909
1909 W. T. Calman in R. Lankester Treat. Zool. VII. iii. 42 In the aberrant Cladoceran Leptodora the oesophagus is of great length.
1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth 258 Form-changes in the Cladoceran Macrothrix rosea.
1953 P. M. Scott & J. M. M. Fisher Thousand Geese ix. 99 I made a plankton net out of a handkerchief..and caught great numbers of capepods and cladocerans.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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