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Fairy shrimp

Phylum: Arthropods
Class: Branchiopoda (branchiopods)
Order: Anostraca - 1 out of 84 species is depicted.

Note: Despite the name fairy shrimp are not shrimp and are only distantly related. They are not even in the same biological class.

Species on page

+ Branchinecta

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Branchinecta

Soda fairies

carrizo

(Branchinecta)
Family: Branchinectidae
Order: Anostraca (fairy shrimp)
Soda Lake
Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County
April 10, 2023
Canon 7D Mark II

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Last modified: April 14, 2025
Created: April 23, 2023 (from jellies.html)
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