clam shrimp

English

Cyzicus californicus, a species of clam shrimp

Noun

clam shrimp (plural clam shrimps or clam shrimp)

1. Any branchiopod crustacean of the suborders Cyclestherida, Laevicaudata, or Spinicaudata (of the disused superorder Conchostraca), covered by a bivalve shell and well adopted to live in temporary, shallow ponds, with many identified extinct and extant species used to date strata.

Translations

a kind of branchiopod crustacean

• Japanese: カイエビ (kaiebi)

Further reading

• clam shrimp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia