Ostracod vs Ostracon - What's the difference?
ostracod | ostracon |
Any of many small crustaceans, of the class Ostracoda , that resemble a shrimp enclosed in a bivalve shell.
* 1990 , Anne Van Frausum, Karel Wouters, 39: Ostracoda from Holocene calcareous tufa deposits in southern Belgium: a palaeoenvironmental analysis'', R. Whatley, C. Maybury (editors), ''Ostracoda and Global Events ,
* 2000', Robin J. Smith, Koen Martens, ''The ontology of the cypridid '''ostracod Eucypris virens (Jurine, 1820) (Crustacea, Ostracoda)'', David J. Horne, Koen Martens (editors), ''Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of Ostracoda ,
* 2012', Ivana Karanovic, ''Recent Freshwater '''Ostracods of the World: Crustacea, Ostracoda, Podocopida ,
A piece of pottery or stone, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.
As nouns the difference between ostracod and ostracon
is that ostracod is any of many small crustaceans, of the class ostracoda , that resemble a shrimp enclosed in a bivalve shell while ostracon is a piece of pottery or stone, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel.ostracod
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(wikipedia ostracod)Alternative forms
* ostracodeNoun
(en noun)page 509,
- Considering all the ecological data, there seems to be an evolution in the associations of ostracods throughout time.
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- This study has also shown that the fifth limb is most probably of thoracic origin and hence ostracods have only one pair of maxillae.
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- A number of parasites and epibionts have been reported from freshwater ostracods , including cestodes, protozoans, helminthes, peritrichs, and acanthocephalans (Griffits and Evans 1994).