I’ve recently been obsessed with Triops, attempting to raise some at the moment in fact. But anyway, I can’t seem to find any information on the morphological diagnosis and differentiation of the species, not even the ones commonly seen in captivity. I have even heard somewhere that morphology is un…

This might be a place to start but I haven’t managed to download it, despite it appearing to be available through Google Scholar: Brendonck, L., Rogers, D.C., Olesen, J. et al. Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595, 167–176 (2008). https:/…

The genus is global in distribution so I’d start with where you are. T. longicaudatus is supposed to be the common one in my area (SW US) but there’s at least another species and my one photo record is still sitting at genus.

Thanks, looks like I’m able to download it with institutional access. Unfortunately it also says that The Notostraca exhibit plasticity in external morphology, making the demarcation of species on this basis a difficult task and doesn’t offer much help in morphological identification, which this…

Unfortunately I live in a part of the world without them (Java). The closest ones to me would be all the way in Australia.

How do you identify Triops species?

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How do you identify Triops species?

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