water flea
any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
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The foot clings to a surface underwater — a plant or a rock, perhaps — and the mouth, ringed with tentacles, ensnares passing water fleas.
Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof. | Veronique Greenwood | May 18, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThe spiny water flea has been latching onto fishing equipment, traveling the Great Lakes for decades, but now they are being transported to some of the most pristine waters in the Upper Midwest.
A spiky flea could ruin Midwestern ecosystems and kill native fish | By Abi Cole/Outdoor Life | February 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSpiny water fleas also bring a million-dollar public recreation problem.
A spiky flea could ruin Midwestern ecosystems and kill native fish | By Abi Cole/Outdoor Life | February 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceLike most damaging invasive species, spiny water fleas reproduce rapidly.
A spiky flea could ruin Midwestern ecosystems and kill native fish | By Abi Cole/Outdoor Life | February 17, 2021 | Popular-ScienceI have already spoken of the fresh-water shrimp and the water-flea (Daphnia pulex).
Amateur Fish Culture | Charles Edward Walker
In short, she was a branchiopod, to be vulgarly precise, a water-flea.
"Wee Tim'rous Beasties" | Douglas EnglishThe water-flea, Daphnia (a crustacean), lays two kinds of eggs known as “summer” and “winter” eggs.
British Dictionary definitions for water flea
any of numerous minute freshwater branchiopod crustaceans of the order Cladocera, which swim by means of hairy branched antennae: See also daphnia
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