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ARTEMIA SALINA HISTORY
The oldest written scientific description of the Artemia brine shrimp comes
from the author Schlösser (or Schloesser; Schlosser) in the year 1756 (or 1755 ?), when he reported their existance
in the saltpans of Lymington, England.
On the right a picture of the drawings by Schlösser:
right: male Artemia
left: female Artemia
Their are defined as Cancer salinus by Linnaeus in 1758 and were finally named
Artemia salina by Leach in 1819 (or 1818 ?).
Artemia salina are a quite famous add-on in some comic book. Most of the
Artemia aficionado today have grown it in their childhood back then.
E.g. in the german comic book YPS it appeared 20(!) times.
And the fascination goes on!
"That little wonder has been a sensation indeed. In an exsiccator, my granddad
obviously diverted it from its intended use, he grew Artemia in it.
In the winter that container looked quite desolate. The bottom was incrusted,
brown dirt all over, with salt crystals. Everything seemed to be dust and dirt.
But if you were actually looking close enough, one saw tiny brown balls
on the walls.
And then the wonder happened: a few days after the exsiccator
was filled with plain tap water, the seemingly dead (anabiotic) eggs awakened
to life! Nauplii hatched! In summer, one part grew to sexually mature (pubescent) animals,
who were mating later on. One could see up to four males grasping one female,
swimming harmonically in the water. After that group sex is nothing that surprising.
The females continously gave birth to hatchlings and there were Artemia
in all stages of development over that summer.
During the growing season
the evaporated water was refilled continuously, but in autumn refilling was stopped.
Hence the culture was drying out slowly and the durable eggs assured the continuity
of the breed from year to year."
-Hans Dohse (while observing the workroom of his granddad; approx. 1910-20) 1)
Reference: 1) Martina Hayo, Gerhard Schwarz: "Artemia" - M+S Verlag 1996
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