cytherellid
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]cytherellid (plural cytherellids)
- (zoology) Any ostracod in the family Cytherellidae.
- 1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188:
- According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids, monotiopleurids and leperditellids.