The feeding method of tadpole shrimps is similar to that proposed for the ancestral crustacean.

The heart of tadpole shrimps is a long dorsal tube in the anterior eleven trunk segments.

To complete their lives, tadpole shrimps depend on the changing nature of the temporary waters they inhabit.

Lepidurus is the larger of the two genera of tadpole shrimp.

In some northern areas, tadpole shrimp are also common.

Notostracans, or tadpole shrimps, are omnivores living on the bottom of temporary pools and shallow lakes.

When their pools dry up,adult tadpole shrimp die.

Triops is a genus of small crustaceans in the order Notostraca (tadpole shrimp).

They are similar in structure to the legs of tadpole shrimp, and similarly, their size decreases from front to back.

Unlike other species of tadpole shrimp, Lepidurus arcticus is known to coexist with fish, such as arctic char.