Biology:Branchipodidae

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Short description: Family of small freshwater animals

Branchipodidae
Temporal range: Late Eocene-Holocene
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Branchipodopsis sp., male and female, from the Western Cape, South Africa
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Suborder: Anostracina
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
  • Branchipus Schaeffer, 1766
  • Metabranchipus Masi, 1925
  • Pumilibranchipus Hamer & Brendonck, 1995
  • Rhinobranchipus Brendonck, 1995

One species, Branchipodites 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

  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. doi:10.1163/156854000505083. 
  2. 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4021113 entry