Anostraca is one of the four orders of crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda; its members are referred to as fairy shrimp. They live in vernal pools and hypersaline lakes across the world, and they have even been found in deserts, ice-covered mountain lakes, and Antarctic ice. They are usually 6–25 mm (0.24–0.98 in) long (exceptionally up to 170 mm or 6.7 in). Most species have 20 body segments, bearing 11 pairs of leaf-like phyllopodia (swimming legs), and the body lacks a carapace. They swim "upside-down" and feed by filtering organic particles from the water or by scraping algae from surfaces, with the exception of Branchinecta gigas, or "giant fairy shrimp", which is itself a predator of other species of anostracans. They are an important food for many birds and fish, and some are cultured and harvested for use as fish food. There are 300 species spread across 8 families.
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Anostraca is one of the four orders of crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda; its members are referred to as fairy shrimp. They live in vernal pools and...
broad and shallow (as in the Notostraca), or entirely absent (as in the Anostraca). In the groups where the carapace prevents the use of the trunk limbs...
(Branchiopoda: Anostraca) (2008). "Phylogeography and local endemism of the native Mediterranean brine shrimp Artemia salina (Branchiopoda: Anostraca)". Mol....
proportionally smallest eyes of any species in the family, and possibly in all Anostraca. Branchinecta gigas has been found in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Washington...
analysis suggests that the hexapods diverged from their sister group, the Anostraca (fairy shrimps), at around the start of the Silurian period 440 million...
animal in the Pragian-aged Rhynie chert deposits. It resembles modern Anostraca, to which it is probably closely related, although its relationships to...
from those of Californian vernal pools, and they have characteristic Anostraca, such as various Branchipodopsis species. In some northern areas, tadpole...
Museum of Paleontology (UCMP). Retrieved 22 August 2022. Branchiopoda (Anostraca, Notostraca, Laevicaudata, Spinicaudata, Cyclestherida) Alberto Addis;...
"Occurrence of tetrahedral eggs in the Streptocephalidae Daday (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) with descriptions of a new subgenus, Parastreptocephalus, and a new species...
Giant Species of Predatory Fairy Shrimp from Idaho, USA (Branchiopoda: Anostraca)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 26 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1651/C-2509.1.{{cite...
two species of crustaceans, Branchinecta paludosa (O. F. Müller, 1788) (Anostraca) and Lepidurus arcticus (Pallas, 1793) (Notostraca), on the Kuril Archipelago"...
of Artemia parthenogenetica (Bowen and Sterling, 1978) (Branchiopoda-Anostraca) exposed to lead acetate". Food and Chemical Toxicology. 46 (12): 3770–3773...
"Further studies on the fairy shrimp genus Branchinella (Crustacea, Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae) in Western Australia, with descriptions of new species"...
for a month or so, then the shallow waters teem with fairy shrimp, or anostraca born of eggs that lie dormant in the silt crust for long periods of time—sometimes...
can open and close. fairy shrimp 300 Fairy shrimp belong to the class Anostraca. These 1–10 cm long freshwater or brackish shrimp have no carapace. They...
(Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1260: 1–25. Nicolas Rabet (2006). "A new species of Brazilian Dendrocephalus (Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae)"...
rare species of crustacean in the family Branchinectidae and the order Anostraca, the fairy shrimp. Commonly known as the San Diego fairy shrimp, it is...
species of Ostracoda 19 species of Copepoda Branchiopoda 19 species of Anostraca 19 species of Cladocera 2 species of Notostraca 15 species of Conchostraca...
(2006). "Three new species of Branchinecta (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca) from the Nearctic" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1126: 35–51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa...
Tanymastix stagnalis is a species of Anostraca (fairy shrimp) that lives in temporary pools across Europe. It may reach up to 2 cm (0.8 in) in some areas...
†Conchyliocarida Order †Enantiopoda Order Nectiopoda Subclass Sarsostraca Order Anostraca (Fairy shrimp) Order †Lipostraca Subclass Phyllopoda Infraclass Calmanostraca...
tentatively placed as a stem-group branchiopod and may be a member of stem-Anostraca alongside Lepidocaris. Rehbachiella is named in honour of Mrs. Helga Rehbach-Lenz...
analysis suggests that the hexapods diverged from their sister group, the Anostraca (fairy shrimps), at around the start of the Silurian period 440 million...
Retrieved 17 November 2021. Denton Belk; Ján Brtek (1995). "Checklist of the Anostraca". Hydrobiologia. 298 (1–3): 315–353. doi:10.1007/BF00033826. S2CID 42896952...
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