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BY the kindness of Mr. A. W. Sheppard and Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S., I have been enabled to examine specimens of the brine shrimps from Geelong mentioned by Mr. Whitteron in his letter (NATURE, June 12, p. 372). They belong to the species Parartemia zietziana, described by the late Mr. O. A. Sayce in 1903 (Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, xv., part ii., p. 232). In Parartemia the unpaired uterine sac is produced into two large dorso-lateral lobes lying on either side of the “tail”, and appearing, as Mr. Whitteron says, “like the egg sacs of Cyclops”. Mr. Sayce's specimens were obtained from a “brackish-water swamp near Lake Alexandrina, South Australia”. It is interesting to learn that the species is able also to live in the brine of salt-pans.
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CALMAN, W. Red Water and Brine Shrimps. Nature 91, 505 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091505b0
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