Useful english dictionary. 2012.
Amphipoda — noun small flat bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand hoppers; skeleton shrimp • Syn: ↑order Amphipoda • Hypernyms: ↑animal order • Member Holonyms: ↑Malacostraca, ↑subclass Malacostraca … Useful english dictionary
Amphipoda — Taxobox name = Amphipoda image width = 250px image caption = A gammarid amphipod ( Gammarus roeselii ) regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Crustacea classis = Malacostraca superordo = Peracarida ordo = Amphipoda ordo authority =… … Wikipedia
animal order — noun the order of animals • Hypernyms: ↑order • Hyponyms: ↑Eubacteriales, ↑order Eubacteriales, ↑Pseudomonadales, ↑order Pseudomonadales, ↑Rickettsiales, ↑order … Useful english dictionary
anus — (Order Cladocera): Posterior opening of digestive tract at end of postabdomen. (terminal, on dorsal margin) [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Notostraca): Posterior opening of digestive tract at end of telson; located between caudal rami and may be… … Crustacea glossary
heart — (Order Cladocera): In circulatory system, typically short, muscular pumping organ located anterior to brood chamber in trunk. Blood enters heart through single pair of ostia and is pumped anteriorly into a sinus, although certain predatory water… … Crustacea glossary
mouth — (Order Cladocera): Anterior opening of digestive tract under labrum; opens into esophagus [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Notostraca): Anterior opening of digestive tract on underside of head; located under labrum and opening into esophagus… … Crustacea glossary
aorta — (Order Cladocera): Heart [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Cladocera): Unpaired blood vessel extending ventroposteriorly from heart. Separated from heart by anteroventral aortic valve and splits distally into several branches [Stachowitsch, 1992].… … Crustacea glossary
brain — (Order Notostraca): Main concentration of nreve tissue in head; consists of supraesophagael ganglion (protocerebrum and deutocerebrum) and, posterior to mouth, tritocerebrum (ganglion of antennal somite). Continues posteriorly as ladder like… … Crustacea glossary
esophageal connective — (Order Cladocera): One of two strands of nerve tissue surrounding esophagus and connecting posterior part of brain with ventral nerve cord [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Anostraca): One of two strands of nerve tissue extending around esophagus and… … Crustacea glossary
cecum — (Order Cladocera): Digestive cecum [Stachowitsch, 1992]. (Order Notostraca): One of two outpocketings of midgut. Elongate and extensively branched with carapace. Opens into digestive tract posterior to esophagus/midgut border. (Syn. midgut… … Crustacea glossary
