thecostracan
English edit
Etymology edit
Thecostraca + -an
Noun edit
thecostracan (plural thecostracans)
- Any barnacle etc. of the subclass Thecostraca
- 2015 September 30, “The Application of DNA Barcodes for the Identification of Marine Crustaceans from the North Sea and Adjacent Regions”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- While nine barnacle species are recorded for the German sectors of the North and Baltic Sea [95 ], the total number of thecostracan species inhabiting the North Sea is unknown.