New Toys
Posted in September 20th, 2008 by slotvent | Filed under General | Comments (0)
Yesterday while in Toys R Us shopping for some new toys for Alfie we came accross a box with what looked like sea monkeys in. They are called Triop.
I know im probably more excited than the rest of the family to see these creatures grow. So yesterday i filled up there tank with some water and emptied the eggs in. Now its today and there are small and by small i mean small, Fishy things swimming about. I shall try to keep you posted on the development of the little fellas as they grow up.
Members of the order Notostraca (colloquially referred to as notostracans, called Triops, tadpole shrimp or shield shrimp) are small crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda. Triops have two internal compound eyes and one naupliar eye in-between, a flattened carapace covering its head and leg-bearing segments of the body. The order contains a single family, with only two extant genera. Their external morphology has apparently not changed since the Triassic appearance of Triops cancriformis around 220 million years ago. Triops cancriformis may therefore be the “oldest living animal species on earth.” The members of the extinct order Kazacharthra are closely related, having been descended from notostracans.
