Showing posts with label crustacean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crustacean. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Crustacean Castanets
Our garden pond is currently full of these little Cypris sp., a.k.a. seed shrimps, that belong to a subclass of crustaceans called ostracods. Each animal resembles a water flea enclosed within a pair of hinged shells. When they’re swimming they look like animated castanets (see video clip), when they’re at rest they look like a minute bean.
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