Chirocephalidae
Chirocephalidae | |
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Chirocephalus diaphanus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Clade: | Pancrustacea |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Branchiopoda |
Subclass: | Sarsostraca |
Order: | Anostraca |
Family: | Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910 [1] |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Chirocephalidae is a family of fairy shrimp, characterised by a reduced or vestigial maxilla, more than two setae on the fifth endite, divided pre-epipodites and widely separated seminal vesicles.[2] It consists of the following eight genera, including the genera formerly placed in the families Linderiellidae and Polyartemiidae:[1][3]
- G. O. Sars, 1897
- Daday de Dées, 1910
- Chirocephalus Prévost, 1820
- Dexteria Brtek, 1965
- Eubranchipus Verrill, 1870
- Linderiella Brtek, 1964
- Fischer, 1851
- Daday de Dées, 1909
References[]
- ^ a b c "Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
- ^ Miguel Alonso (1996). "Anostraca". Crustacea, Branchiopoda. Fauna Ibérica (in Spanish). Vol. 7. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. pp. 17–66. ISBN 978-84-00-07571-2.
- ^ Peter H. H. Weekers; Gopal Murugan; Jacques R. Vanfleteren; Denton Belk; Henri J. Dumont (2002). "Phylogenetic analysis of anostracans (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) inferred from nuclear 18S ribosomal DNA (18S rDNA) sequences" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 25 (3): 535–544. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00289-0. PMID 12450757.
Categories:
- Anostraca
- Crustacean families
- Branchiopoda stubs