| Lepidurus arcticus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Branchiopoda |
| Order: | Notostraca |
| Family: | Triopsidae |
| Genus: | Lepidurus |
| Species: | L. arcticus |
| Binomial name | |
| Lepidurus arcticus (Pallas, 1793) [1] |
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Lepidurus arcticus is a species of tadpole shrimp which inhabits both ephemeral pools and permanent freshwater lakes of Norway, Greenland, Svalbard, Iceland, Russia and the Kuril Islands.[2][3]
Unlike other species of tadpole shrimp, Lepidurus arcticus is known to coexist with fish, such as arctic char. Furthermore, they exist in water temperatures much colder (4–7 °C, 39–45 °F) than the other species of its order.[3]