Branchinecta paludosa explained

Branchinecta paludosa is a species of fairy shrimp with a Holarctic distribution.^[1]

Distribution

B. paludosa is widely distributed in the Arctic tundra of Eurasia, chiefly above latitudes of 60° north.^[2] It reaches its northern limit, 77° north at Ivanov Bay in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.^{[3] [4]} Further populations exist as far south as the Tatra Mountains on the Polish–Slovakian border at about 49° north.^[2] There are scattered records from North America, mostly near the Arctic Ocean.^[2]

Life cycle

After hatching, young B. paludosa spend 20–30 days as larvae, before reaching sexual maturity between the end of July and middle of August. They are then reproductive for 35–45 days.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Elena M. Sayenko & Noboru Minakawa . 1999 . Occurrence of two species of crustaceans, Branchinecta paludosa (O. F. Müller, 1788) (Anostraca) and Lepidurus arcticus (Pallas, 1793) (Notostraca), on the Kuril Archipelago . . 72 . 7 . 710–712 . 20106186. 10.1163/156854099503744 .
2. James F. Saunders III, Denton Belk & Richard Duford . 1993 . [ftp://ftp2.fs.fed.us/incoming/r2/mbr/eco/fairyShrimp/fairy_shrimp_mbnf.pdf Persistence of ''Branchinecta paludosa'' (Anostraca) in southern Wyoming, with notes on zoogeography ]. . 13 . 1 . 184–189 . 1549133 . 10.2307/1549133 .
3. Book: D. Dudley Williams . 2006 . The Biology of Temporary Waters . . 978-0-19-852811-1 . The biota . 40–120 . https://books.google.com/books?id=KSyeiPd3ATMC&pg=PA64.
4. Nicholas V. Vekhoff . 1997 . Large branchiopod Crustacea (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicaudata) of the Barents Region of Russia . . 359 . 1–3 . M. A. Simovich, C. Sassaman & D. Belk . 69–74 . 10.1023/A:1003116432010. 31584337 .