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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Entomostraca \En`to*mos"tra*ca\, n. pl [NL., fr Gr ? cut in
pieces + ? burnt clay, the hard shell of Testacea.]
(Zo["o]l.)
One of the subclasses of Crustacea, including a large number
of species, many of them minute. The group embraces several
orders as the Phyllopoda, Ostracoda, Copepoda, and
Pectostraca. See {Copepoda}, {Phyllopoda}, and {Cladocera}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Entomostraca
n : in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and
Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in
technical use [syn: {Entomostraca}, {subclass
Entomostraca}]
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