Branchipodidae

Branchipodidae Temporal range: Late Eocene-Holocene
Branchipodopsis sp., male and female, from the Western Cape, South Africa
Scientific classification
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.

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. 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". Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 167–176. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9119-9.

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