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Definition of Nauplii

Nauplii
Nauplius Nau"pli*us, n.; pl. Nauplii. [L., a kind of shellfish, fr. Gr. ? ship + ? to sail.] (Zo["o]l.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antenn[ae], and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

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- Walter Faxon on the shrimp Palaemonetes vulgaris in 1879). Anatomy of nauplii The genus name Nauplius was published posthumously by Otto Friedrich Müller...
- provide a convenient form of live feed for larval fish and crustaceans. Nauplii of the brine shrimp Artemia constitute the most widely used food item,...
- cysts, brine shrimp nauplii can readily be used to feed to fish and crustacean larvae just after one-day incubation. Instar I (the nauplii that just hatched...
- class in the subphylum Crustacea comprising only 12 species. Both the nauplii and the adults are benthic. They were discovered in 1955 by Howard L. Sanders...
- hatch into nauplii that are about 0.5 mm in length. They have a single simple eye that only senses the presence and direction of light. Nauplii swim towards...
- several hundred nauplii per brood, which they have two or three of each mating season, when they reproduce by co****tion. The nauplii then live pelagically...
- tintinnids; other ciliates; Rotifera; juvenile metazoansCrustacea (copepod nauplii) Nanoplankton 2→20 μm small eukaryotic protists; small diatoms; small flagellates;...
- liberate 3,000 to 4,000 nauplii. Second year individuals at an average size of twenty millimeters will produce about 20,000 nauplii, whilst larger individuals...
- p****ing through five instars, before transforming into the cyprid stage. Nauplii are typically initially brooded by the parent, and released after the first...
- (Ascothoracida and Cirripedia). Y-nauplius illustration Y-cyprid illustration Y-nauplii are 250–620 micrometres (0.010–0.024 in) long, with a faceted cephalic...