Branchipodidae

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Branchipodidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Branchipodidae
H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 [1]

Branchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp. It contains 35 species in five genera:[2]

  • Branchipodopsis G. O. Sars, 1898
  • Branchipus Schaeffer, 1766
  • Metabranchipus Masi, 1925
  • Pumilibranchipus Hamer & Brendonck, 1995
  • Rhinobranchipus Brendonck, 1995

References

  1. 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. JSTOR 20106379. 
  2. Luc Brendonck, D. Christopher Rogers, Jorgen Olesen, Stephen Weeks & Walter R. Hoch (2008). Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater. In Estelle V. Balian, Christian Lévêque, Hendrik Segers & Koen Martens. "Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment". Hydrobiologia. Developments in Hydrobiology 198 595 (1): 167–176. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9119-9. ISBN 978-1-4020-8258-0. 
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