Ostracoda
See also: ostracoda
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀστρακώδης (ostrakṓdēs, “covered with shell”), from ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “shell”).
Proper noun
Ostracoda
- A taxonomic class within the subphylum Crustacea – the ostracods.
Hypernyms
- (class): Animalia - kingdom; Eumetazoa - subkingdom; Bilateria, Nephrozoa, Protostomia, Ecdysozoa - clades; Arthropoda - phylum; Crustacea - subphylum
Hyponyms
- (class): Myodocopa, Podocopa (subclasses)
References
- Ostracoda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ostracoda on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Ostracoda on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Ostracoda at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521