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Webster 1913 Edition
Phyllopoda
‖
Phyl-lop′o-da
(fĭl-lŏp′ō̍-dȧ)
, p
rop.
Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. Gr.
φύλλον
a leaf + -poda
.] (Zool.)
An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in swimming. Called also .
Branchiopoda
☞ In some, the body is covered with a bivalve shell (
Holostraca
); in others, as Apus, by a shield-shaped carapace (Monostraca
); in others, like Artemia, there is no carapace, and the body is regularly segmented. Sometimes the group is made to include also the Cladocera.