Chirocephalidae

Chirocephalidae
Chirocephalus diaphanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Chirocephalidae
Daday de Dées, 1910 [1]
Synonyms [1]
  • Linderiellidae Brtek, 1964
  • Polyartemiidae Simon, 1886

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]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=83718. Retrieved May 21, 2011. 
  2. ^ Miguel Alonso (1996). "Anostraca" (in Spanish). Crustacea, Branchiopoda. Fauna Ibérica. 7. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. pp. 17–66. ISBN 9788400075712. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gURbGkW0ey8C&pg=PA46. 
  3. ^ 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. http://arthroinfo.org/pdfs/3663/3663.pdf. 
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