Biology:Lepidurus arcticus

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Short description: Species of small freshwater animal

Lepidurus arcticus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Notostraca
Family: Triopsidae
Genus: Lepidurus
Species:
L. arcticus
Binomial name
Lepidurus arcticus
(Pallas, 1793) [1]

Arctic tadpole shrimp Lepidurus arcticus[2] is a species of tadpole shrimp which inhabits ephemeral pools, ponds or permanent freshwater lakes of Finland ,[3][4][5] Norway , Sweden,[6] Svalbard,[2][7] Greenland, Iceland, Russia and the Kuril Islands.[8][9]

Unlike other species of tadpole shrimp, Lepidurus arcticus is known to coexist with fish, such as Arctic char,[4] brown trout[6] and European whitefish.[5] Furthermore, they exist in water temperatures much colder (4–7 °C or 39–45 °F) than the other species of its order.[9] About 14 °C seems to be the upper thermal threshold for where in which waters it can live.[10] It is a common predator of Daphnia pulex.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Lepidurus arcticus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=83759. Retrieved May 28, 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lakka, Hanna-Kaisa (2013) (in en). The ecology of a freshwater crustacean: Lepidurus arcticus (Branchiopoda, Notostraca) in a High Arctic region.. University of Helsinki. pp. 151. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20180115161. 
  3. ↑ Lakka, Hanna-Kaisa (2020) (in en). Environmental Change in Arctic Freshwaters: The Response of Indicator Species to Global Warming and Acidification in the Arctic.. University of Jyväskylä.. pp. 51. ISBN 978-951-39-8326-0. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-8326-0. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Järvinen, A; Lakka, H-K; Sujala, M (2014). "Arktinen Kilpikidusjalkainen, tunturivesien elävä fossiili, löydetty jälleen Suomesta. ("The living fossil Arctic tadpole shrimp was found again in Finland")" (in fi). Luonnon Tutkija 1: 19–24. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lakka, H-K; Leppänen, A; Mykrä, H; Vaajala, M; Raineva, S; Lensu, T; Salonen, E (2019). "Paljakkakilpiäinen siian ravintona Inarijärvessä". Luonnon Tutkija 2: 66–70. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Qvenild, T; Fjeld, E; Fjellheim, A; Hammar, J; Hesthagen, T; Lakka, H-K (2021). "Upper thermal threshold of Lepidurus arcticus (Branchiopoda, Notostraca) in lakes on the southern outreach of its distribution range.". Fauna Norvegica 41: 50–88. doi:10.5324/fn.v41i0.3832. ISSN 1891-5396. 
  7. ↑ Lakka, Hanna-Kaisa (2015). "Description of the male Lepidurus arcticus (Branchiopoda: Notostraca) and the potential role of cannibalism in defining male form and population sex ratio". Journal of Crustacean Biology 35 (3): 319–329. doi:10.1163/1937240X-00002324. https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240X-00002324. 
  8. ↑ Schlager, Neil, et al. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Gale. 2004 ISBN 0-7876-5362-4.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Species Descriptions by Chip Hannum". http://mytriops.com/articles/triops_species2.stm. 
  10. ↑ Upper thermal threshold of Lepidurus arcticus (Branchiopoda, Notostraca) in lakes on the southern outreach of its distribution range
  11. ↑ Kirsten Christoffersen (2001). "Predation on Daphnia pulex by Lepidurus arcticus". Hydrobiologia 442 (1–3): 223–229. doi:10.1023/A:1017584928657. 

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