Nauplius
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Nauplia, Nauplius or Nauplios icon, may refer to :
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Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
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- Nauplius (mythology)Nauplius (mythology)In Greek mythology, Nauplius was the name of two characters, one descended from the other. The name may originally have been applied to one character, the founder of the city of Nauplia in Argolis...
, the son of Poseidon and Amymone in Greek mythology - Nauplia, a harbor town in Greece
- The king of Nauplia or (more rarely) EuboeaEuboeaEuboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long and narrow, seahorse-shaped island; it is about long, and varies in breadth from to...
, held to be a descendant of the mythological Nauplius
Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
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- Nauplius, a copepodCopepodCopepods are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat. Some species are planktonic , some are benthic , and some continental species may live in limno-terrestrial habitats and other wet terrestrial places, such as swamps, under leaf fall in wet forests,...
genusGenusIn biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
, considered synonymous with CyclopsCyclops (genus)Cyclops is one of the most common genera of freshwater copepods, comprising over 400 species . The name Cyclops comes from the Cyclops of Greek mythology which shares the quality of having a single large eye, which may be either red or black in Cyclops.Cyclops individuals may range from...
today - Nauplius (larva) of crustaceanCrustaceanCrustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
s - Nauplius (plant)Nauplius (plant)Nauplius is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.Species in this genus include:* N. daltonii* N. graveolens* N. imbricatus* N. schultzii* N. smithii...
, a genus in the sunflower family (AsteraceaeAsteraceaeThe Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
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, an asteroid