Billington et al. 1989

Billington N, Boileau MG, Hebert PDN. 1989. Range extension of the fairy shrimp Polyartemiella hazeni (Murdoch, 1884) (Crustacea: Anostraca) to the eastern Canadian Arctic, with notes on the distribution of other eastern Arctic Anostraca. The Canadian Field-Naturalist 103: 404-405.

These authors present a short note that describes the capture of several species of Anostracans from the western shore of Hudson Bay, in what was then the Northwest Territories. For Polyartemiella hazeni, collections from Rankin Inlet and Eskimo Point represent a range expansion of about 1300 km eastwards; for the other species records here and from Igloolik provide similar range expansion estimates. The ability of one species, Branchinecta paludosa, to facultatively achieve two generations per year when conditions are good suggests circumstantial evidence in favour of a link between dessication and cold tolerance in freshwater animals.