Artemia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca) cyst bank (IATS-CSIC)

Study Extent

Global

Sampling

Artemia cyst, also named durable egg, samples were collected from the brine surface with a plankton net or scraped from the shore mud in their natural environments through personal sampling campaigns in extensive areas of the world when possible or receiving them from an ample colleague net.

Method steps

1. 1. Sampling crude Artemia material. 2. Cleaning of the less dense floating accompanying materials with brine. 3. Cleaning in brine with different sieving processes through various decreasing size pore plankton meshes (from 1000 to 60 µm) to discard dense accompanying materials of other sizes. 4. Separation of the empty shells with a differential flotation treatment in distilled water. 5. Finally, dehydration in oven at 40°C and packing under vacuum. 6. Stored at 4°C.

Different species of the genus Artemia (Crustacea, Branchiopoda, Anostraca)

1. Artemia
   common name: brine shrimp rank: genus
2. Crustacea
   common name: crustaceans rank: subphylum
3. Branchiopoda
   common name: branchiopods rank: class
4. Anostraca
   common name: fairy shrimps rank: order

Hypersaline natural and man-made water bodies from temperate and tropical zones in arid and semiarid locations.