Branchiopoda Essays

The brine shrimp have cousins just like us, the brine shrimp cousins are the lobster and the crab. The brine shrimps subclass Branchiopoda meaning “gill foot,” is referring to the fact that the gills are on the outer side of the limb bases. The brine shrimp glide through the water, it’s propelled by what looks like two wings along their sides.. Under the microscope, the “wings” are

One of the leading causes for reefs to be endangered is due to the invasive lionfish. The lionfish’s impulsive eating habits are threatening our sea life of the reefs and decreasing our fisheries economically. According to Lionfish Hunters, the green side includes the cleaners that maintain the health of the reef and the health of other fish such as “grazers.” The grazers are the parrotfish, goatfish, wrasses, surgeonfish, and tangs. (The Lionfish Hunters, web.) These fish help clean the algae that

Introduction: Daphina are planktonic crustaceans that belong to the class Phyllopoda(Branchiopoda) to which flattened leaf-legs used in producing a water vcurrent for their filtering apparatus. In the brachiopods, Daphnia belong to the order Cladocera whose bodies are encloosed by carapace, which is made up of chitin and polysaccharide. The carpace forms double wall separates hemolymph anda part of body cavity.Animals which belong to the order Cladocera, have up to 10 pairs of appendages, which