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[dailybugfacts]

Can we get a cool fact about triops? If they count as buges

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Did you know that the Longtail Tadpole Shrimp (Triops Longicaudatus) is a small crustacean found throughout South America and north into much of the US? They look kinda like a horseshoe crab but much smaller and with two tail tips instead of one. Typically they reproduce asexually but sometimes there is sexual reproduction. Even less frequent (but frequent enough to note) individuals in some populations have the parts necessary to give and receive both male and female gametes. Their eggs are extremely resilient, being able to withstand flashfreezes and droughts, with the ability to wait in diapause for up to 20 years(!) before inviability.

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[snototter]

A shield shrimp (Triops australiensis) in Kimberley, Australia

by Ian Bool

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My beautiful cannibal children

[overdoso]

Avistamento raro de um Notostraca, o camarão-girino, uma criatura pré-histórica que existiu na Terra por 220 milhões de anos. Notostraca é uma ordem dentro da classe Branchiopoda, há apenas uma família, Triopsidae, com dois gêneros: Triops e Lepidurus.

[alphynix]

Guess who got to design a tadpole shrimp pin for Bizarre Beasts this month!

They came out really well despite me being a bit ambitious with the fine details:

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(...They haven't updated the artist name on there from last month. I'm not Emily Alvarez 🙃.)

[theyshapedlikefriends]

Little Beans Tadpole Shrimp

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[astronomy-to-zoology]

"Shield Shrimp" (Triops australiensis)

...a species of tadpole 'shrimp' that is widely distributed across Australia, except the northern parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Like other tadpole 'shrimp' this species inhabits temporary pools of water in arid regions. When these desiccated pools fill up with water the resting eggs will hatch and develop rapidly into adulthood. T. australiensis is an omnivore and will eat anything it can find at the bottom of its pool.

Classification

Animalia-Arthropoda-Crustacea-Branchiopoda-Notostraca-Triopsidae-Triops-T. australiensis

Images: Domoinik Tomaszewski and zweidrei