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2 | Fairy shrimp, female, Eubranchipus vernalis. The female fairy shrimp is identified by the brood pouch with eggs. Fairy shrimp filter-feed on detritus in a vernal pool. Their encysted eggs drop to the pool bottom and must dry before hatching when re-submerged. This wet-dry component of their life cycle obligates them to live in temporary wetlands.

_MG_5444.jpg - Fairy shrimp, female, Eubranchipus vernalis . The female fairy shrimp is identified by the brood pouch with eggs. Fairy shrimp filter-feed on detritus in a vernal pool. Their encysted eggs drop to the pool bottom and must dry before hatching when re-submerged. This wet-dry component of their life cycle obligates them to live in temporary wetlands.

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