Tags: Crustacean.
Leptodora is a genus containing two species of large nearly transparent predatory water fleas. They grow up to 21 mm (0.83 in) long with two large antennae used for swimming and a single compound eye. The legs are used to catch other copepods that it comes into contact with by chance. Leptodora kindtii is found in temperate lakes across the Northern Hemisphere and is probably the only cladoceran ever described in a newspaper; L. richardi is only known from eastern Russia.
