CyprisTheir size ranges from 0.5 - 3 mm.
You can find these creatures amongst aquatic vegetation and browsing the surface layers of bottom mud.
The body of an ostracod, including its head, is guarded by a bean-shaped shell (the carapace). Some of the smaller rounded water fleas (e.g. Chydorus) may be confused for an ostracod, but the shell of a water flea is usually much more transparent.
The ostracods, although quite easy to recognise, are often hard to identify further, because externally they all look rather alike!
Classification :Kingdom - Animalia, Phylum - Crustacea, Class - Ostracoda
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