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Primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans fairy shrimps
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branchiopoda
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Branchiopoda \Bran"chi*o*poda\, n. pl. [Gr. ? gill + -poda: cf. F. branchiopode.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus ...
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Branchiopoda is a class of crustaceans . It comprises fairy shrimp , clam shrimp , Cladocera , Notostraca and the Devonian Lepidocaris . They are mostly small, freshwater animals that feed on plankton and detritus.