Tag: Fairy Shrimp

  • 9/150: Fairly Shore it’s a Fairy Shrimp

    9/150: Fairly Shore it’s a Fairy Shrimp

    Animalia: Arthropoda: Branchiopoda : Anostraca: Branchinectida: Branchinecta: Branchinecta paludosa (O. F. Müller, 1788) Branchinecta paludosa is a species of fairy shrimp found almost everywhere in the northern hemisphere, and one of the only four species of fairy shrimp that are freshwater inhabitants. Most species in the fairy shrimp group have several pairs of swimming legs,…