A small fairy shrimp which lives in brine pools and salt lakes and is used as food for aquarium fish.
Artemia salina, class Branchiopoda
 Example sentencesExamples
-  In another two to three days the young should have graduated to newly hatched brine shrimp.
 -  Daphnia are close relatives of the freshwater shrimp, and the brine shrimp (Artemia).
 -  Let's just say that I now owe someone about a half a ton of premium North Atlantic brine shrimp.
 -  His future goals include determining the optimum feeding density of brine shrimp.
 -  The recently imported brine shrimp pets are under attack and may even be banned.