nauplius

American  

[naw-plee-uhs] / ˈnɔ pli əs /

noun

plural

nauplii

1. (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.

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nauplius British  

/ ˈnɔːplɪəs /

noun

1. the larva of many crustaceans, having a rounded unsegmented body with three pairs of limbs

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Other Word Forms

• nauplial adjective
• naupliform adjective
• nauplioid adjective

Etymology

Origin of nauplius

1830–40; < Latin: a kind of shellfish

Example Sentences

Nauplius larvae of Tisbe copepods, 50 to 80 micrometres small, are of similar size to Aiptasia larvae, making them an ideal food.

From Science Daily

There’s Orpheus, who can charm anything and anybody with his song; Nauplius, the greatest sailor of his time; Euphemus, “the fleetest-footed man alive”; Lynceus, endowed with super-vision — “they say that he could easily project/ his eye beams even underneath the earth” — and the shape-changer Periclymenus.

From Washington Post

Nauplius, naw′pli-us, n. a stage of development of low Crustaceans, as cirripeds, &c.:—pl.

From Project Gutenberg

It is also found in the earliest and most primitive form of larva, known as the Nauplius.

From Project Gutenberg

In the nauplius larva they lie rather at the sides than in front of the mouth, and their basal portion carries a hook-like masticatory process which assists the similar processes of the mandibles in seizing food.

From Project Gutenberg