Nauplius

Quick meaning: Nauplius is a noun meaning (zoology) A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

Meaning

(zoology) A crustacean larva that has three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

Example Sentences

The copepod nauplii concentrations were significantly different among stations and by depth (Appendices 3 and 4).

Only nauplii that are attracted to the light at the top of the hatching tank should be collected, since these are the healthy ones.

It is not certain that phaseluses are trilobites and not naupliuses of crustaceans or an extinct group of arthropods that has yet to be recognized.

The oval body, with the abdomen not yet differentiated, and bearing no limbs; the (usually) three pairs of limbs, representing the first and second antennæ and mandibles of the adult, together with the single eye, are the distinguishing characteristics of the nauplius stage.

Word Forms

• nauplii
• naupliuses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include metanauplius, pleopod, uropod, nectiopodan, megalopa, anomopod.

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