Plural of daphnia; multiple individual water fleas or specimens of the daphnia genus.
From daphnia, a genus name derived from the mythological Daphne, with the English plural suffix -s added to the scientific name.
Fish farmers buy daphnias in bulk—billions of them—to feed baby fish, creating a massive hidden industry where these microscopic creatures are more economically important than many crops!
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