Artemia salina

Artemia salina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Artemiidae
Genus: Artemia
Species:
A. salina
Binomial name
Artemia salina
Synonyms

Artemia tunisiana (but see text)

Artemia salina is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans that are more closely related to Triops and cladocerans than to true shrimp. It belongs to a lineage that does not appear to have changed much in 100 million years.[citation needed]

Artemia salina is native to saline lakes, ponds, and temporary waters (not seas) in the Mediterranean region of Southern Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa.[2][3] Considerable taxonomic confusion exists, and some populations elsewhere have formerly been referred to as this species, but are now recognized as separate species.[2]

  1. ^ "Artemia salina (Linnaeus, 1758)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. 2012. Retrieved December 7, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Alireza Asem; Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani; Patricio De Los Rios (2010). "The genus Artemia Leach, 1819 (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): true and false taxonomical descriptions" (PDF). Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research. 38: 501–506. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2018-01-30.
  3. ^ Alas, A.; Kaya, M.; Öktener, A. (2017). "Distribution and abundance of Artemia salina in the Salt Lake Basin (Central Anatolia, Turkey)". Transylv. Rev. Syst. Ecol. Res. 19 (2): 37–44. doi:10.1515/trser-2017-0011.