Tanymastix stagnalis

Tags: Crustacean.

Tanymastix stagnalis is a species of Anostraca (fairy shrimp) that lives in temporary pools across Europe. It may reach up to 20 mm (0.79 in) in some areas and has 11 pairs of bristly flattened appendages. It swims upside-down and filters food particles from the water. It is the only species of Anostraca in Ireland having been discovered in Rahasane turlough in 1974.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae

class

Branchiopoda

family

Tanymastigidae

genus

Tanymastix

kingdom

Animal

order

Anostraca

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*, *Astacus stagnalis (Linnaeus 1758), *Branchipus lacunae (Guérin-Méneville 1829), *Cancer stagnalis (Linnaeus 1758), *Chirocephalus lacunae (Frauenfeld 1873), *Gammarus stagnalis (Linnaeus 1758), *Tanymastix lacunae (Daday 1910)