Tags: Crustacean.
Linderiella occidentalis (the California fairy shrimp or California Linderella) is a species of fairy shrimp native to California. It is a small (about 1 cm long) crustacean in the family Chirocephalidae family. It has a delicate elongated body large stalked compound eyes no carapace and eleven pairs of swimming legs. It glides gracefully upside down swimming by beating its legs in a complex wavelike movement that passes from front to back. Like other fairy shrimp L.