Oligostracans
Oligostraca
Oligostraca is a superclass of crustaceans. It consists of the following classes:
Class Mystacocarida: Minute crustaceans (0.5 to 1 mm in length) restricted to interstitial marine sediments. Locomotion depends completely on the presence of dorsal and ventral substrates.
3 branches of this group, most-observed first
Ostracods
classOstracoda
Branchiurans and Tongue Worms
classIchthyostraca
Mystacocaridans
subclassMystacocarida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 473792.