Nauplii is not an Artemia species name!

I took four years of Latin in high school, tested out of the first two Latin courses in college, and took one Latin course during my freshman year in college. So, as anyone who has had me edit a paper for them knows, I am a bit of a stickler when it comes to language. A particularly annoying thing for me is when people say they feed their Hydra cultures with Artemia nauplii (with nauplii in italics, indicating that it is the species name). Nauplii is not an Artemia species name! Nauplii is the plural of nauplius, which is the term for the larva of a crustacean. The Artemia most of us feed to Hydra comes from either San Francisco or the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Both of these Artemia are Artemia franciscana. You will sometimes see them incorrectly referred to as Artemia salina.

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