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Sphaeroma

crustacean genus
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  • American lobster
    crustacean
    / Reproduction and life cycles

    …Peracarida, some isopods, such as Sphaeroma, many branchiopods, the Notostraca, and the order Anostraca have a brood pouch on or behind the limbs that is often formed by the carapace. Those free-living copepods that do not cast their eggs freely into the water carry them in one or two thin-walled…

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    …Peracarida, some isopods, such as Sphaeroma, many branchiopods, the Notostraca, and the order Anostraca have a brood pouch on or behind the limbs that is often formed by the carapace. Those free-living copepods that do not cast their eggs freely into the water carry them in one or two thin-walled…

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