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The feeding habits of the filter-feeding fairy shrimp Streptocephalus proboscideus are documented experimentally by offering them ciliates, Volvox, rotifers, nematodes and small crustaceans as prey. Escape capabilities (e.g. swimming speed) rather than size or shape were found to determine these animals’ vulnerability to predation by the fairy shrimp. Ingestion rates for Volvox increased hyperbolically with size and, at the high temperatures in which they live, fairy shrimps may daily remove the equivalent of their body weight from the environment.
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Mertens, J., Munuswamy, N., De Walsche, C., Dumont, H.J. (1990). On predatory tendencies in the feeding ecology of the fairy shrimp Streptocephalus proboscideus (Frauenfeld, 1873) (Crustacea: Anostraca). In: Dumont, H.J., Tundisi, J.G., Roche, K. (eds) Intrazooplankton Predation. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2067-5_11
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