ostracod

IPA: ˈɔstrʌkˈɑd

Any of many small crustaceans, of the class Ostracoda, that resemble a shrimp enclosed in a bivalve shell.

Examples of "ostracod" in Sentences

I bet a boy ostracod enjoys his "special long leg."
Steve's microfossil search achieved success: he found a fossil ostracod!
Interestingly, only 3 males, in contrast to more than 600 females, of the new ostracod species were collected.
The first act began in Japan fifty years ago, when Osamu Shimomura studied the self-luminous small crustacean ostracod Cypridina.
Very few ostracod species incubate their eggs within their body; most lay their eggs either singly or in groups on sediment or aquatic vegetation.
Lü et al. (2004) originally named this taxon Nemegtia, but that turned out to be preoccupied by an ostracod from the Nemegt Formation (shades of 'Ingenia').
This implies that the conclusions of previous studies that sexed fossil ostracod carapaces from their morphology for example, Martens et al., 2003 may have been flawed.
A paper by Smith et al.1 that came out in June 2006, and which I just had a chance to read, however, reported the finding of males in a new species of darwinuloid ostracod, Vestalenula cornelia, from Japan.