Crustacea glossary. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 2011.
Filter feeder — [ left|thumb|200px|Krill feeding under high phytoplankton concentration (slowed down by a factor of 12).] Filter feeders (also known as suspension feeders) are animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water,… … Wikipedia
ciconiiform — ▪ bird Introduction any member of the five or six families of storklike (stork) birds (bird): herons (heron) and bitterns (bittern) (Ardeidae), the shoebill (sole species of the Balaenicipitidae), the hammerhead (sole species of the Scopidae) … Universalium
pyloric stomach — Posterior region of the decapod foregut [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]. (Order Decapoda): Posterior and smaller division of stomach; separated from large anterior cardiac stomach by cardiopyloric valve. Characterized by highly folded, setose walls… … Crustacea glossary
Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… … Universalium
cardiac stomach — Anterior region of the decapod foregut [Brusca and Brusca, 2002]. (Order Decapoda): Anterior and larger cuticle lined division of stomach; separated from smaller posterior pyloric stomach by cardiopyloric valve and characterized by variously… … Crustacea glossary
Antarctic krill — Taxobox name = Antarctic krill image width = 200px regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda subphylum = Crustacea classis = Malacostraca ordo = Euphausiacea familia = Euphausiidae genus = Euphausia species = E. superba binomial = Euphausia superba… … Wikipedia
endite — ( ) [Holthuis, 1993]. Schematic drawing of a thoracic leg. [Holthuis, 1993] A mesial lobe like extension of a podomere or such an extension from the axial part of an unsegmented appendage [Hobbs, Hobbs, and Daniel 1977]. A non specific term to… … Crustacea glossary
posterior cardiac plate — (Order Stomatopoda): Filtering apparatus [Stachowitsch, 1992] … Crustacea glossary
ClearType — is a trademark for Microsoft s implementation of subpixel rendering technology. ClearType attempts to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens by sacrificing color fidelity for additional intensity variation.… … Wikipedia
MPEG-2 — Not to be confused with MPEG 1 Audio Layer II (MP2). MPEG 2 is used in Digital Video Broadcast and Digital Versatile Discs. The MPEG transport stream, TS, and MPEG program stream, PS, are container formats. MPEG 2 is a standard for the generic… … Wikipedia
