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Primitive aquatic mainly freshwater crustaceans fairy shrimps
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branchiopoda
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Phyllopoda \Phyl*lop"o*da\, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a leaf + -poda.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of Entomostraca including a large number of species, most of which live in fresh water. They have flattened or leaflike legs, often very numerous, which they use in ...
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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.