Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans known as brine shrimp. Artemia, the only genus in the family Artemiidae, has changed little externally since the Triassic period. The historical record of the existence of Artemia dates back to 982 from Urmia Lake, Iran, although the first unambiguous record is the report and drawings made by Schlösser in...
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(genus Artemia), any of several small crustaceans of the order Anostraca (class Branchiopoda) inhabiting brine pools and other highly saline inland ... [2 related articles]
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A shrimp in the genus Artemia that inhabits saline and hypersaline waters. It is a staple item among aquarists who feed living foods to their fishes, and in its larval stage is arguably the single most important living food in the entire aquarium hobby and ornamental fish industry. (see nauplii)
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n] - common to saline lakes
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Artemia salina noun common to saline lakes
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a small crustacean, Artemia salina, of the order Anostraca, common to saline lakes, including Great Salt Lake in Utah.
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