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Sorry this has taken me so long to remember to look it up, but the name of the fairy shrimp in the woodland pond of Blomidon Prov. Park (was it Stephen Shaw who asked?) is Eubranchipus intricatus (should be in Italics, of course). And the name should also include the authority and date, which in this case is Hartland-Rowe, 1967. This species is widely distributed in Canada west of Nova Scotia, from Quebec west to B.C., but its discovery in May of 1988 in this pond was the first confirmed record for fairy shrimp in Nova Scotia. Since then the same species was found just north of Somerset School northeast of Berwick, also in King's County, Nova Scotia, but nowhere else. Annual field trips to the Blomidon Park pond in late May have confirmed the continual presence of this species up to 2011. The original identification to species was made by Graham Daborn of Acadia University, and this discovery in 1988 was by Pierre Taschereau of Dalhousie University, who was leading a park field trip in which I was a participant. I rapidly collected some specimens, hopefully with an appropriate permit from Dept. of Lands and Forests (now Natural Resources), and delivered them to Daborn. He identified them to species, and then documented the discovery with a paper published in Canadian Field Naturalist journal, Vol 105, issue 4, pp. 571-572, of 1992, written by Daborn with co-authors Wolford and Taschereau. This paper also states that the arctic fairy shrimp, Branchinecta paludosa (Muller, 1788), was apparently represented in a collection received in December of 1928, with the locality given as "Taylor Harbor, Nova Scotia", which researcher R.W. Dexter in 1958 thought may have been really Taylor Head on the Eastern Shore. Daborn did a search there in 1975 (unpublished) but found no fairy shrimps.
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