I bet a boy ostracod enjoys his "special long leg.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

SNAIL'S TALES: An occasional male ostracod skip to main.    From Wordnik.com.  [An occasional male ostracod] Reference

Steve's microfossil search achieved success: he found a fossil ostracod!.    From Wordnik.com.  [MDRS-88 sol 6: Life on Mars] Reference

The authors also mention an ostracod and an ant that can survive exposure to temperatures close to 50ºC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Interestingly, only 3 males, in contrast to more than 600 females, of the new ostracod species were collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

The first act began in Japan fifty years ago, when Osamu Shimomura studied the self-luminous small crustacean ostracod Cypridina.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Very few ostracod species incubate their eggs within their body; most lay their eggs either singly or in groups on sediment or aquatic vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crustacea] Reference

But this is by no means all, -- not only is there this external resemblance between the thoracic armour of the crustacean and the bivalve shell, but the two sides of the ostracod and phyllopod thorax are connected together also by an adductor muscle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Genesis of Species] Reference

An exceptionally preserved myodocopid ostracod from the Silurian of Herefordshire, UK.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

The specimen, which was found in rocks in Herefordshire, represents a new species of ostracod, and has been named Nasunaris flata.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

Synchrotron holotomography represents a virtual longitudinal section through the 100 million-year-old fossil ostracod Harbinia micropapillosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

The ostracod was so well preserved that the team managed to spot the Bellonci organ, a sensory structure observed in modern species which protrudes out of the middle eye located at the front of the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

Geologists find ostracods useful in order to help recreate past environments - the type of ostracod found in a rock sample would, for example, help to determine a picture of ancient conditions like water depth and salinity.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

I never saw an ostracod before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Turns out the critter was an ostracod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Professor David Siveter: "Most fossil ostracod species are known only from their shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

An occasional male ostracod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Definitely not a snowman] Reference