Vernal Pool Fairy Shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi)

The vernal pool fairy shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi) is a small freshwater crustacean (0.12 to 1.5 inches long) belonging to an ancient order of branchiopods, the Anostraca. Like other anostracans, it has stalked compound eyes and eleven pairs of phyllopods (swimming legs that

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