mussel shrimp


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Noun1.mussel shrimp - tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shellmussel shrimp - tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp-like body enclosed in a bivalve shell
ostracod, seed shrimp
crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
Ostracoda, subclass Ostracoda - seed shrimps
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Renate Matzke-Karasz, paleontologist at the Ludwig-Maximiliian University and Geo-Bio Center said that the animal that this 'giant' sperm belongs to is from the class of Ostracoda, or mussel shrimp and their species have been on Earth for at least 500 million years, Discovery News reported.
The less than an inch in length sperm of male mussel shrimp has industrial strength which makes it enormous with respect to the size of its male producer.( ANI )
Paleontologists discover world's most 'giant' and 'oldest' fossilized sperm

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