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Clam Shrimp |
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Triops-like |
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Many Gilled Feet |
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Gilled Legs |
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Crustaceans |
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Jointed Feet |
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Molting |
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Mouth First |
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Two-Way Symmetry |
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True Higher Animals |
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Cells with a Nucleus |
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Cyzicus Genus |
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| Location / Where this Creature is found: |
Came from Southern Utah.
Dirt was gathered from a pot where these crustaceans where living. A year later, water was added to them, and placed in the sun. Now there are dozens of these.
Small, about the size of an aspirin, reddish brown. Lots of little legs.
| General information about
Clam Shrimp : |
These are excellent pond animals, they devour mosquito nymphs. They work well with Triops living in the same pond.
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Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Subclass: Phyllopoda
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Known from the fossil record, to be from at least the Devonian period (The Age of Fish). About 400 million years ago.
They were originally classified in a single order Conchostraca.
Legs are similar in structure to the legs of Tadpole shrimp.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam shrimp
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Spinicaudata Linder, 1945
* Cyzicidae Stebbing, 1910
o Caenestheria
o Caenestheriella
o Cyzicus
o Eocyzicus
* Eosestheriidae Zhang & Chen, 1976 (fossil)
o Bairdestheria
o Menucoestheria Gallego & Covacevich, 1998
* Euestheridae Defretin, 1965 (fossil)
o Laxitextella Kozur, 1982
* Leptestheriidae Daday, 1923
o Eoleptestheria
o Leptestheria
o Leptestheriella
o Maghrebestheria
o Sewellestheria
* Limnadiidae Baird, 1849 (including Imnadiidae)
o Eulimnadia
o Imnadia
o Limnadia
o Limnadiopsis
o Limnadiopsidum
o Metalimnadia
* Palaeolimnadiidae Tasch, 1956 (fossil)
o Krasiestheria Olempska, 2004 (tentatively placed here)
Cyclestherida Sars, 1899
* Cyclestheriidae Sars, 1899
o Cyclestheria
o Paracyclestheria
Laevicaudata Linder, 1945
* Lynceidae Baird, 1845
o Lynceiopsis
o Lynceus
o Paralimnetis
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Cyzicus reaches sexual maturity in 19 days after hatching.
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AKA Triops, Dinosaur Shrimp, Shield Shrimp. They have 3 eyes, and 72 pairs of legs. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Tadpole Shrimp have been on earth for at least 300 millio |
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These creatures hatched from eggs that sat through last summer and through the winter. They were forgotten, but appeared when water was added to an aquarium that had their eggs in it. From the same di |
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Clam Shrimp Diagram
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Clam Shrimp Diagram
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