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Article: FIRST RECORD FROM NEBRASKA OF THE CLAM SHRIMP EULIMNADIA DIVERSA (CRUSTACEA: BRANCHIOPODA: CONCHOSTRACA).(Brief Article)
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- Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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This paper reports the first record from Nebraska of the conchostracan Eulimnadia diversa (Crustacea: Branchiopoda), which was collected in a shallow pond in Thomas County, Nebraska, USA.
During the summer of 1998, I collected larval amphibians across Nebraska as a means of testing for declines in historical populations. While collecting amphibians, particularly in ephemeral and seasonal pools, I commonly encountered representatives of the three orders of branchiopods (Conchostraca, Notostraca, and Anostraca). On 10 July 1998, I sampled a small Sandhills stock pond 12.8 km north of Halsey in Thomas County, Nebraska, for invertebrates and larval amphibians. The ...