The head consists of one prostomial and five metameric segments which bear in order the median and compound eyes and labrum, first antennae, second antennae, mandibles, first maxillae or maxillulae, and second maxillae or maxillulae.
The thorax is constructed of eleven segments, each provided with a pair of thoracopodes, while the abdomen is composed of eight segments.
The anterior two abdominal segments are often referred to as the genital segments and of these the first bears the gonopods, either the egg sac of the female or the paired penes of the male.
Abdominal segments lack appendages. The final abdominal segment possesses the cercopods, also called the furca or telson. The entire body is covered with a thin, flexible exoskeleton of chitin to which muscles are attached internally.
The exoskeleton is shed periodically and in females a moult precedes every ovulation, while in the male a correlation between moulting and reproduction has not been observed. There are very few macroscopically visible morphological differences between the various species of the genus. The identification of bisexual Artemia species has therefore been established by cross-breeding tests, morphological and morphometrical differentiation, cytogenetics and allozyme studies; presently, increasing importance is being given to nuclear and mitochondrial DNA analysis, including sequencing.
With the exception of cross-mating, all these techniques have also contributed to identifying the parthenogenetic types described as A. The name A. The differentiation of 7 bisexual species, defined primarily by the criterion of reproductive isolation as found in laboratory tests, and of many parthenogenetic populations is currently acknowledged.
Endemic to Europe, Africa and Asia and also found in Australia are the parthenogenetic populations with different levels of ploidy. On these continents are also found the bisexuals A. Endemic to the Americas are A. The status of Artemia as an economic commodity began in the s when some investigators adopted it as a convenient replacement for the natural plankton diet for fish larvae thus realizing the first break-through in the culture of commercially important fish species.
With fish and shrimp operations emerging from the early s onwards, new marketing opportunities were created for Artemia cysts. The dramatic impact of the cyst shortage on the expanding aquaculture industry invigorated research on the rationalization of the use of Artemia and the exploration of new cyst resources.
The cyst shortage simultaneously invigorated the search for alternatives for Artemia in an attempt to abandon its use as live food in larval nutrition; a process that continues till today with slow but steady successes. Over the history of its exploitation the Great Salt Lake — however large — remained a natural ecosystem subject to climatic and other influences; this has been illustrated by unpredictable and fluctuating cyst harvests.
New insights in hatching characteristics and nutritional essentials gave rise to the segregation of different cyst qualities since the s.
At the same time cyst consumption increased exponentially as a consequence of the booming shrimp and marine fish industries. In some 6 hatcheries required over 1 tonnes of cysts annually. At that time about 80 to 85 percent of the total sales of Artemia went to shrimp hatcheries, the remainder being used in marine fish larviculture in Europe and East Asia and for the pet fish market; this situation has hardly changed since.
Despite this, the need for alternative resources and the increased demand from aquaculture has resulted in the occasional or regular exploitation of many other small and medium inland salt lakes, especially in southern Siberia, Kazakhstan and China and in coastal areas of the Bohai Bay, China, along with further rationalization in the use of Artemia. Farming Artemia Along with the exploitation of natural resources, intensive cyst production in solar saltworks especially in East Asia and Latin America comprises an important market share in terms of high product quality and the importance of local cyst production in sustaining aquaculture development in many countries in the South.
Often this production is carried out seasonally e. This involves the deliberate transplantation of Artemia, not only for the production of Artemia cysts or biomass in itself but also because of the beneficial effect of Artemia presence on the salt production process. High water viscosity in the crystallisers, as created by algal blooms upstream, may completely inhibit salt crystal formation and precipitation.
The presence of brine shrimp in sufficient numbers is essential not only for controlling these algal blooms but also for the development of halophilic bacteria in the crystallisation ponds, which proliferate on Artemia decomposition products. High concentrations of these bacteria promote heat absorption, thereby accelerating evaporation, hence crystallisation. Depending on climatological conditions, inoculations can also be considered definitive when one or a few attempts of inoculation will lead to the permanent establishment of an Artemia population, as in Australia and China.
The first attempts in the inoculation and subsequent management of Artemia in solar saltworks was performed in the s in Brazil, soon followed by the Philippines, China and Thailand.
However, it is mainly in Viet Nam that this activity has proven particularly successful. Since the first initiatives of the s interest in the seasonal culture of Artemia in the Mekong Delta aimed at cyst production has expanded and the know-how has gradually been transferred to artisanal salt farmers via local cooperatives. This alternative farming system has been increasingly successful and has resulted in higher profits for salt farmers compared to their traditional low income from salt production alone.
In , about 1. This region is currently an important supplier of high quality cysts for domestic use and for the international market. The nutritional value of Artemia cysts varies highly between geographical sources, especially in the level of essential highly unsaturated fatty acids, and also from batch to batch. These techniques take advantage of the indiscriminate filter-feeding behaviour of brine shrimp and use them as a vehicle for administration of selected fatty acids, vitamins, essential nutrients and therapeutics to fish and shrimp larvae.
This and other developments, such as cyst decapsulation and nauplius cold storage techniques, have contributed to the fast expansion of the industrial farming of an increasing number of aquaculture species globally. Finally, although Artemia is mostly used in the form of freshly hatched nauplii, more and more use is made of juvenile and adult Artemia known as biomass in shrimp nursery and maturation facilities. The brine shrimp Artemia Crustacea, Anostraca is a zooplanktonic organism found globally in hypersaline habitats such as inland salt lakes, coastal salt pans and man-managed saltworks.
Presently more than sites have been recorded, although such lists reflect systematic inventory work for specific areas, rather than an accurate reflection of true zoogeographical distribution, since many areas e. No Artemia is found in areas where year-round low temperatures exclude its development, but a lot of strains are found in the continental areas of North and South America and Asia with extremely cold winter temperatures, as long as sufficiently high summer temperatures allow cyst hatching and subsequent colonization of the environment.
Being extremely osmotolerant, brine shrimp survive in environments with salinities ranging between approximately 10 and per thousand with diverse ionic composition and temperature regimes; in general the lower salinity threshold of its occurrence is determined by the salinity tolerance of its predators in the area, and abundant Artemia populations are consequentially only found at salinities elevated enough to eliminate nearly all predators or food competitors.
Artemia is exceptionally adapted to such extreme environments, due to its unique osmoregulatory capacity and its capacity to synthesize highly efficient haemoglobins.
Artemia reproduces by two modes, involving either nauplius ovoviviparous or cyst oviparous production, depending on the prevailing ecological conditions. If you are ordering perishable or frozen products during this week, we will be required to ship on Monday for Next Day delivery or on Thursday for Next Day delivery only. Next Day shipping rates will apply. It is advisable that you call us to confirm that we have received your order and will be able to ship before the applicable FedEx cut-off time.
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