Crossword-Solution: OSTRACODA 9 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The Crabs and Macrurous Crustacea, the Stomapoda, the Diastylidæ, the Amphipoda and Isopoda, the Ostracoda and Daphnidæ, the Copepoda and Parasita, the Cirripedes and Rhizocephala of our coast, representing the class of Crustacea with the deficiency only of the Phyllopoda and Xiphosura, furnished a long and varied, and at the same time intimately connected series, such as was at my command in no other class.

The anterior antennæ of the Copepoda, Cladocera, Phyllopoda (Leydig, Claus), Ostracoda (at least the Cypridinæ), Diastylidæ, Edriophthalma, and Podophthalma, with few exceptions relating to terrestrial animals or parasites, bear peculiar filaments which I have already repeatedly mentioned as “olfactory filaments.” A pair of similar filaments spring, in the larvæ of the Cirripedia and Rhizocephala, directly from the brain.

The near relationship of the Cirripedia to the Ostracoda is also spoken of, but the similarity of the so-called “_Cypris_-like larvæ,” or Cirriped-pupæ as Darwin calls them, to _Cypris_ is so purely external, even as regards the shell, that the relationship appears to me to be scarcely greater than that of _Peltogaster socialis_ (Fig.

And in the same way among the Ostracoda, the _Cypridinæ,_ which I find possess a heart, place themselves side by side with _Cypris_ and _Cythere_ which have no such organ.—Or to the respiratory apparatus? Milne-Edwards did this when he separated _Mysis_ and _Leucifer_ from the Decapoda, but he himself afterwards saw that this was an error.

Cyprian.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A genus of small, bivalve, freshwater Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.