naupliiform

[Lat. nauplius (q. v.) (gen it. nauplii ), and form a =shape, appearance.] Having the shape of a nauplius; resembling a nauplius (q. v.). "The larvæ of the Copepods are naupliiform ."- Nichol son : Zoology (1878), p. 278. nâu-pli-ŭs ( pl . nâu-pli-1), s . [Lat., from Gr. nauplios a kind of mollusk which sails in its shell as in a ship. ( Pliny : H. N. , ix. 30, 49.)] Zool .: A term applied by O. F. Müller to the unsegmented ovate larvæ of the lower Crustacea, with a median frontal eye, but without a bone carapace. The name is now employed to designate all the larval forms having this character. "The embryo almost always leaves the egg in the condition of a nauplius." Huxley: Comp. Anat. Invert. Anim., p. 268. nauplius-form, s. Zool .: The earliest stage in the development of many Crustacea, especially those belonging to the lower groups. (Darwin: Origin of Species.) [NAUPLIIFORM.]