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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
New England Brine Shrimp
Description
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Genus Artemia
brine shrimp nauplii are used as food for fry in aquaria and, to a limited extent, adult brine shrimp may be fed to larger fish. The nauplii are hatched from purchased cysts in warm, aerated, saline water and must be rinsed to remove salt before feeding to fry.
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Class:
Branchiopoda
()
- Latreille, 1817
- Subclass:
Sarsostraca
()
- Tasch, 1969
- Order:
Anostraca
()
- Sars, 1867
- Family:
Artemiidae
()
- Grochowski, 1896
- Genus:
Artemia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Specific name:
gracilis
- Verrill, 1869
- Scientific name: - Artemia gracilis Verrill, 1869
- Specific name:
gracilis
- Verrill, 1869
- Genus:
Artemia
(
- Family:
Artemiidae
(
- Order:
Anostraca
(
- Subclass:
Sarsostraca
(
- Class:
Branchiopoda
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 04-May-2004
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Artemia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. discus · A. fertilis · A. franciscana (San Francisco Brine Shrimp) · A. gracilis (New England Brine Shrimp) · A. milhauseni · A. monica (Mono Lake Brine Shrimp) · A. oudneyi · A. parthenogenetica · A. persimilis · A. salina · A. sinica · A. tibetiana · A. tunisiana · A. urmiana
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Further Reading
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- A biological survey of the waters of Woods Hole and vicinity / By Francis B. Sumner, Raymond C. Osburn, and Leon J. Cole. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1913 ENG url p. 837.
- A manual of the common invertebrate animals, exclusive of insects / by Henry Sherring Pratt with over one thousand illustrations. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923. ENG url p. 331.
- Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 463, p. 59.
- Belk, Denton, and Ján Brtek 1995. Checklist of the Anostraca. Hydrobiologia, vol. 298. 315-353.
- Brtek, Ján 1997. Checklist of the valid and invalid names of the "large branchiopods" (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata and Laevicaudata), with a survey of the taxonomy of all Branchiopoda. Zborník Slovenského Národného Múzea, PrírodnéVedy, vol. 43. 1-66. ISBN: 80-85753-97-9.
- Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. Paris: La Société, FRE url p. 102, p. 103.
- David Nicolson - ITIS Data Development Coordinator: McLaughlin et al. (2005) Occurrence values: I[X]
- Fauna of New England. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the Gurdon Saltonstall Fund, 1904-25. ENG url p. 11, p. 117.
- Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. Oxford [etc.]Royal Microscopical Society, 1878-1968. ENG url p. 351.
- L'Année biologique. Paris, Masson. FRE url p. 40.
- Marine microbiology, a monograph on hydrobacteriology, by Claude E. ZoBell Foreword by Selman A. Waksman Waltham, Mass., Chronica Botanica Company, 1946. ENG url p. 203.
- Naturwissenschaftliche Wochenschrift. Jena [etc.]G. Fischer [etc.] GER url p. 414.
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 166.
- Radiation biology, edited by Alexander Hollaender with the cooperation of Austin M. Brues [and others]. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1954-56. ENG url p. 683.
- Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 299, p. 305, p. 628.
- The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, ENG url p. 18, p. 23, p. 26, p. 26, p. 32, p. 67.
- The Great Basin naturalist. Provo, Utah, M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University. ENG url p. 222, p. 228.
- The standard natural history. Ed. by John Sterling Kingsley. Boston, S.E. Cassino and company, 1884-85. ENG url p. 38, p. 40.
- Verbreitung und Ursache der Parthenogenesis im Pflanzen- und Tierreiche / von Dr. Hans Winkler. Jena: G. FIscher, 1920. GER url p. 207.
- Videnskabelige meddelelser fra den Naturhistoriske forening i Kj©benhavn. Kj©benhavn: Selskabets Bestyrelse, [1849]-1912. DAN url p. 100, p. 101, p. 171, p. 95, p. 98, p. 99.
- Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1849- GER url p. 113.
- Zoologischer Anzeiger. Jena, VEB Gustav Fischer Verlag. GER url p. 137, p. 210, p. 287, p. 7.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.
- NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3403526
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-624039
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 624039
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ICBRA02030
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 18210
