minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
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water flea::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | cyclops |
| Type of | copepod, copepod crustacean |
water flea::noun | Spocien Dictionary
minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | daphnia |
| Type of | branchiopodan, branchiopod, branchiopod crustacean |
