Brine shrimp are small aquatic crustaceans found in highly saline lakes and lagoons across the world, able to tolerate salt concentrations far too high for nearly all other animal life. Their eggs can dry out completely and remain dormant for years, hatching only once returned to salt water, a trait that has made the species easy to ship and sell commercially as fish food and as the novelty pets marketed as Sea-Monkeys. In the wild, their large, filter-feeding populations are an important food source for migratory waterbirds at salt lakes worldwide.
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Source Wikidata: Brine Shrimp
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The ability of the Artemia to produce dormant eggs, known as cysts, has led to extensive use of Artemia in aquaculture.
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Artemia populations are found worldwide, typically in inland saltwater lakes, but occasionally in oceans.
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In the wild, their large, filter-feeding populations are an important food source for migratory waterbirds at salt lakes worldwide.
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- Wikidata Q134772, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Child Taxon Of: Branchiopoda, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
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