This Cypridopsis was captured among freshwater algae sample at Brunswick Community College, Aquaculture Facility located in Brunswick County, North Carolina. Photographed March 3, 2007.
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Classification according to Crustaceae of New Zealand
Order Podocopida - Ordovician to present; antennae uniramous; 5 pairs of postoral appendages; marine & freshwater and terrestrial. Seed shrimps, mussel shrimps
Cypridae
Cypridopsinae - Cypridopsis jollea, C. obstinata, C. vidua ...
Cypridopsis
According to table with crustaceans: cladocerons, copepods and ostracods, from Aids to the recognition of Fresh-water Algae, Invertebrates and Fishes
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A Volvox rests nearby (upper left corner).
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