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Lepidurus arcticus (arctic tadpole shrimp)

Synonyms: Lepidurus glacialis; Lepidurus spitzbergensis; Lepidurus ussuriensis; Monoculus arcticus (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Lepidurus arcticus is a species of tadpole shrimp which inhabits both ephemeral pools and permanent freshwater lakes of Norway, Greenland, Finland, Sweden, Svalbard, Iceland, Russia and the Kuril Islands. Unlike other species of tadpole shrimp, Lepidurus arcticus is known to coexist with fish, such as Arctic char. Furthermore, they exist in water temperatures much colder (4–7 °C or 39–45 °F) than the other species of its order. It is a common predator of Daphnia pulex.
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Predators

Salmo trutta (Brown trout)[1]
Thymallus thymallus (Grayling)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Paracuaria tridentata[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0