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Triops longicaudatus (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Triopsidae)

Triops longicaudatus

Credit: Micha L. Rieser

Triops longicaudatus is a freshwater crustacean of the order Notostraca. It is considered a living fossil because its from has changed little from its ancestors 70 million years ago.