Today, the Sea-Monkey company continues the claim on their website, “Well, the Sea Monkey® ,( Artemia nyos) is a relative of the brine shrimp (Artemia Salina ). Teaming up with marine biologist Anthony D’Agostino at the New York Ocean Science laboratory in Montauk, Harold mastered the instant life process and created “super” Sea Monkeys® (Artemia NYOS) out of common brine shrimp (Artemia Salina). Two refinements, in 1970 and then again in 1995, resulted in a larger and hardier Sea-Monkeys® that can live up to two years.” www.Sea-Monkeys.com:
“Artemia NYOS is a patented breed of brine shrimp commercially sold as Sea-Monkeys. The breed is a hybridization of different Artemia.” https://aquafauna.fandom.com/wiki/Artemia_NYOS
“They're an artificial breed of brine shrimp. Sea-Monkeys are a hybrid breed of brine shrimp called Artemia NYOS invented in 1957 by Harold von Braunhut.” https://www.livescience.com/33907-sea-monkeys.html
I could not find any scientific articles, patents, or legal documents showing evidence for the claim that Artemia NYOS is a new species. If it was a hybrid, then there would be the identification of the other Artemia Species that it was mixed with.
I could find no evidence in the literature on DNA evidence that the Sea-Monkey is an interspecies hybrid.
So, I ask you, the audience out there, do you know of any evidence that validates this new species claim?