Eubranchipus vernalis (Branchiopoda: Anostraca). eastern fairy shrimp #macroinvertebrates #fairyshrimp
March 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Eubranchipus vernalis (Branchiopoda: Anostraca). eastern fairy shrimp #macroinvertebrates #fairyshrimp
we really need a cute common word for anostraca besides fairy "shrimp" because I keep having to explain to people that this shrimp has nothing to do with the shrimp you order in a restaurant. like when I say "the shrimp have two penises"
December 4, 2024 at 5:03 PM
we really need a cute common word for anostraca besides fairy "shrimp" because I keep having to explain to people that this shrimp has nothing to do with the shrimp you order in a restaurant. like when I say "the shrimp have two penises"
WIP "Paleochirocephalus rasnitsyni"
#sciart #chirocephalidae #paleochirocephalus #transbaikal #cretaceous #anostraca #branchiopoda
#sciart #chirocephalidae #paleochirocephalus #transbaikal #cretaceous #anostraca #branchiopoda
May 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
WIP "Paleochirocephalus rasnitsyni"
#sciart #chirocephalidae #paleochirocephalus #transbaikal #cretaceous #anostraca #branchiopoda
#sciart #chirocephalidae #paleochirocephalus #transbaikal #cretaceous #anostraca #branchiopoda
not to say that "clam shrimp" or "fairy shrimp" are particularly useful or accurate common names, they're kind of eh, but almost no one would be able to follow anything I said if I went around saying "anostraca"
July 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
not to say that "clam shrimp" or "fairy shrimp" are particularly useful or accurate common names, they're kind of eh, but almost no one would be able to follow anything I said if I went around saying "anostraca"
why are Linderiella shrimp distributions always like That
January 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
why are Linderiella shrimp distributions always like That
Calling all SFF writers with an emphasis on solarpunk and cli-fi futures:
You heard the Mossworm! Anostraca is looking for love. Will you consider adding fairy shrimp to a tale you tell about the world we're struggling to sustain?
(And hey, where fiction-writers go, maybe researchers will follow!)
You heard the Mossworm! Anostraca is looking for love. Will you consider adding fairy shrimp to a tale you tell about the world we're struggling to sustain?
(And hey, where fiction-writers go, maybe researchers will follow!)
no one wants my friends the fairy shrimp included in their science. the bug people tell me to hit the road with my non-insect, the crustacean people are too busy with the entire ocean. who will make a home for my friend peepo
November 21, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Calling all SFF writers with an emphasis on solarpunk and cli-fi futures:
You heard the Mossworm! Anostraca is looking for love. Will you consider adding fairy shrimp to a tale you tell about the world we're struggling to sustain?
(And hey, where fiction-writers go, maybe researchers will follow!)
You heard the Mossworm! Anostraca is looking for love. Will you consider adding fairy shrimp to a tale you tell about the world we're struggling to sustain?
(And hey, where fiction-writers go, maybe researchers will follow!)
Wait, we can just randomly post #macroinvertebrates here??
Meet my beloved fairy shrimp Anostraca
Meet my beloved fairy shrimp Anostraca
December 9, 2024 at 11:08 PM
Wait, we can just randomly post #macroinvertebrates here??
Meet my beloved fairy shrimp Anostraca
Meet my beloved fairy shrimp Anostraca
Let's talk about fairies & enchanted rocks in Texas.
Specifically, let's talk about the fairy shrimp ("Lone Star Sea Monkeys"!) that live in vernal pools at the top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, TX.
We'll start with why Enchanted Rock is enchanted.
(🧑🎨: Stan Fellows, www.stanfellows.com)
Specifically, let's talk about the fairy shrimp ("Lone Star Sea Monkeys"!) that live in vernal pools at the top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, TX.
We'll start with why Enchanted Rock is enchanted.
(🧑🎨: Stan Fellows, www.stanfellows.com)
February 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Let's talk about fairies & enchanted rocks in Texas.
Specifically, let's talk about the fairy shrimp ("Lone Star Sea Monkeys"!) that live in vernal pools at the top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, TX.
We'll start with why Enchanted Rock is enchanted.
(🧑🎨: Stan Fellows, www.stanfellows.com)
Specifically, let's talk about the fairy shrimp ("Lone Star Sea Monkeys"!) that live in vernal pools at the top of Enchanted Rock near Fredericksburg, TX.
We'll start with why Enchanted Rock is enchanted.
(🧑🎨: Stan Fellows, www.stanfellows.com)
Fairy shrimp (Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
oohh, #taxonomistappreciationday again. Hi, I wander around and collect crustaceans out of temporary freshwater. I'm not affiliated & I have no resources besides what I buy myself, so I don't really assess whether or not I'm finding new species, I just document everything. Found this a few days ago
March 19, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Fairy shrimp (Branchiopoda: Anostraca)
new ambient track: Anostraca
watch some seagulls fly around
watch some seagulls fly around
March 21, 2025 at 10:49 PM
new ambient track: Anostraca
watch some seagulls fly around
watch some seagulls fly around
His sign.
This one actually has a funny meaning.
artemia : capitalized : a genus of crustaceans (order Anostraca) found in salt lakes and the brines of saltworks
2
plural-s : any crustacean of the genus Artemia : brine shrimp
This one actually has a funny meaning.
artemia : capitalized : a genus of crustaceans (order Anostraca) found in salt lakes and the brines of saltworks
2
plural-s : any crustacean of the genus Artemia : brine shrimp
April 22, 2026 at 8:25 AM
His sign.
This one actually has a funny meaning.
artemia : capitalized : a genus of crustaceans (order Anostraca) found in salt lakes and the brines of saltworks
2
plural-s : any crustacean of the genus Artemia : brine shrimp
This one actually has a funny meaning.
artemia : capitalized : a genus of crustaceans (order Anostraca) found in salt lakes and the brines of saltworks
2
plural-s : any crustacean of the genus Artemia : brine shrimp
I’ve recently learned about fairy shrimp aka desert shrimp and this would be a wonderful time to find some! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anostraca
Anostraca - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
February 11, 2024 at 4:27 PM
I’ve recently learned about fairy shrimp aka desert shrimp and this would be a wonderful time to find some! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anostraca
Oh if you're in the northeast then yeah, March is usually a better bet, but it's about the rain more than the temp. Sometimes I just search iNat for "Anostraca" and see what's around
February 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Oh if you're in the northeast then yeah, March is usually a better bet, but it's about the rain more than the temp. Sometimes I just search iNat for "Anostraca" and see what's around
Fairy shrimp (Anostraca)
Only one pond in my shrimp circuit got enough rain for them to hatch, and of course there's no rain expected for the next week, so these were all destined to die as infants. Their natural way of life involves a lot of random chance and mass death
December 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Fairy shrimp (Anostraca)
Mitogenomic phylogeny and divergence time estimation of Artemia Leach, 1819 (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) with emphasis on parthenogenetic lineages https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40065211/
March 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Mitogenomic phylogeny and divergence time estimation of Artemia Leach, 1819 (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) with emphasis on parthenogenetic lineages https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40065211/
Check inaturalist for "Anostraca" in your area, often you can just go to the same place someone else found something and find it again
January 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Check inaturalist for "Anostraca" in your area, often you can just go to the same place someone else found something and find it again
The Santa Rosa fairy shrimp were abundant in the large vernal pool at the Santa Rosa Plateau today!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/49074
Article from 1994
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/49074
Article from 1994
Details - A New American Fairy Shrimp, Linderiella santarosae (Crustacea, Anostraca, Linderiellidae), From Vernal Pools Of California, Usa - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
March 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Santa Rosa fairy shrimp were abundant in the large vernal pool at the Santa Rosa Plateau today!
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/49074
Article from 1994
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/49074
Article from 1994
—especially interested in the Devonian lately. All that new life on land. Now I get to learn about ponds, too. Such fun!
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
Vernal Pool Invertebrates
Anostraca are recognized by having no external shell, two compound eyes, and two sets of antennae. Their abdomen terminates with a pair of tail-like cercopods.
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us
April 8, 2026 at 4:31 AM
—especially interested in the Devonian lately. All that new life on land. Now I get to learn about ponds, too. Such fun!
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
The density of invertebrates in vernal pools is insane. Hundreds of thousands of little crustaceans (fairy shrimp and copepods) that are only alive for a few weeks. Insane that these habitats are not legally protected.
March 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The density of invertebrates in vernal pools is insane. Hundreds of thousands of little crustaceans (fairy shrimp and copepods) that are only alive for a few weeks. Insane that these habitats are not legally protected.
Pennsylvania is very much not California but regardless, this page has been a nice summary of vernal pool creatures
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
Vernal Pool Invertebrates
Anostraca are recognized by having no external shell, two compound eyes, and two sets of antennae. Their abdomen terminates with a pair of tail-like cercopods.
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us
January 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Pennsylvania is very much not California but regardless, this page has been a nice summary of vernal pool creatures
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
www.naturalheritage.state.pa.us/VernalPool_I...
Oh ok, thanks, I'll have a read! Honestly though, this was more just a personal observation of mine. There's a type of anostraca called Branchinecta gigas which looks quite anomalocaris-like. It's also predatory.
July 7, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Oh ok, thanks, I'll have a read! Honestly though, this was more just a personal observation of mine. There's a type of anostraca called Branchinecta gigas which looks quite anomalocaris-like. It's also predatory.
Branchiopoda (Crustacea: Anostraca and Diplostraca) diversity in Tajik Pamir and plain West and South Tajikistan https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39647166/
December 10, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Branchiopoda (Crustacea: Anostraca and Diplostraca) diversity in Tajik Pamir and plain West and South Tajikistan https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39647166/
