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Leptodori kindtii (Cladocera: Leptodoridae)
... that
Leptodora
(pictured)
is the largest
planktonic
cladoceran
, and its
type species
is probably the only cladoceran to have been
described
in a
newspaper
?
... that the
woodlouse
Trichoniscus pusillus
has some populations that reproduce
sexually
and others that reproduce
clonally
?
... that
Hemimysis anomala
, a
mysid shrimp
native to the
Ponto-Caspian region
, has recently
invaded
the
North American
Great Lakes
?
... that the
New Zealand
endemic
amphipod
Paraleptamphopus caeruleus
lives in "bog-water on top of Swampy Hill"?
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