Branchipodidae
| Branchipodidae | |
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| Branchipodopsis sp., male and female, from the Western Cape, South Africa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Branchiopoda |
| Order: | Anostraca |
| Family: | Branchipodidae H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 [1] |
Branchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera:[2]
- Branchipodopsis G. O. Sars, 1898
- Schaeffer, 1766
- Masi, 1925
- Hamer & Brendonck, 1995
- Brendonck, 1995
One species, vectensis Woodward, 1879, in an extinct genus, is known as a fossil from the Latest Eocene-aged Insect Bed of the Bembridge Marls, of the Isle of Wight.
References[]
- ^ Jan Brtek & Graziella Mura (2000). "Revised key to families and genera of the Anostraca with notes on their geographical distribution". Crustaceana. 73 (9): 1037–1088. doi:10.1163/156854000505083. JSTOR 20106379.
- ^ Luc Brendonck; D. Christopher Rogers; Jorgen Olesen; Stephen Weeks; Walter R. Hoch (2008). "Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater". Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 167–176. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9119-9.
Families of class Branchiopoda | ||
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| Anostraca |  | |
| Notostraca | ||
| Laevicaudata | ||
| Spinicaudata | ||
| Cyclestherida |
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| Cladocera |
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- Anostraca
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- Extant Eocene first appearances
- Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards
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