nauplius
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noun
A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.
Nauplius in a sentence
It is not certain that phaseluses are trilobites and not naupliuses of crustaceans or an extinct group of arthropods that has yet to be recognized.
The copepod nauplii concentrations were significantly different among stations and by depth (Appendices 3 and 4).
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