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Branchipodidae
Sign in to saveBranchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera: Branchipodopsis G. O. Sars, 1898 Branchipus Schaeffer, 1766 Metabranchipus Masi, 1925 Pumilibranchipus Hamer & Brendonck, 1995 Rhinobranchipus Brendonck, 1995
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassBranchiopoda
- OrderAnostraca
- FamilyBranchipodidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 10
- Family
- Branchipodidae
- Collections
- LACM, MAGNT, SAMA, AM
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, South Africa
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Branchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera: 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.
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