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n. - In some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia.

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  • Between latitudes 56° and 57° south of Cape Horn, the net was put astern several times; it never, however, brought up anything besides a few of two extremely minute species of...
  • There were a large number of these Entomostraca in the Carboniferous period, a group which is chiefly represented among living Crustacea by an exceedingly minute kind of...
  • In the same plants are found curious little Entomostraca, very abundant there but found nowhere else.
  • In the same place the suctorial Entomostraca are added as examples of the difficulty of recognising the type.
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