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Branchiopods
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Orders

not necessarily a complete list:
Anostraca
Notostraca
Cladocera
Conchostraca

Branchiopoda is a group of primarily fresh water crustaceans, mostly resembling shrimp. A few are well-known, including the Artemia (brine shrimp, called Sea MonkeysŪ when marketed as novelties), and Daphnia, both of which are raised as aquarium food or as interesting pets in and of themselves.





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Crustacean from Rhynie: Lepidocaris rhyniensis (398 words)
This very small crustacean (up to 3 mm) is the most common and best-known animal from the Rhynie chert.
It belongs to an extinct order of the branchiopod crustaceans, the Lipostraca, and it is the oldest known species in this group.
It is also one of the earliest known freshwater crustaceans.
Branchiopoda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (474 words)
Branchiopods in general are equipped with a ventral food groove, useful for suspension and filter feeding.
The water current in the ventral food groove, used for breathing and feeding in most species, are producing by a battery of unspecialised legs.
The small branchiopods, mostly represented by water fleas, have succeeded in becoming zooplankton in such a degree that waters filled with fish and other threats are no longer a problem.
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