cypris

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cypris (noun; Latin Cypris, Venus): (Arthropoda: Crustacea) In bivalve barnacles, the nonfeeding larval stage prior to metamorphosis into the cyprid, kentrogon and adult stage, so named because of its resemblance to the ostracod genus Cypris.
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