Class Branchiopoda

• Includes brine or fairy shrimp, clam shrimp, and water flea
• Found as plankton in aquatic environments
• It is characterized by a flattened leaf-like trunk and appendage
• The coxa has a flattened epipodite that serve as a gill and terminal processes called cocoapods.
• Water fleas

  A) Compound eyes

  B) Second antenna

  C) Carapace

  D) Thoracic legs

  E) Intestine

  F) Heart

  
• Phylum: Arthropoda

  Subphylum: Mandibulata

  Superclass: Crustacea

  Class: Branchiopoda

  Subclass: Phyllopoda

  Order: Anomopoda

  Family: Daphniidae

  Genus: Daphnia

  Common name: Water flea

  A) Heart

  B) Carapace

  C) Embryos

  D) Second antenna

  E) compound eye