Branchipodidae is a family of
fairy shrimp
Anostraca is one of the four orders of crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda; its members are referred to as fairy shrimp. They live in vernal pools and hypersaline lakes across the world, and they have even been found in deserts, ice-covered mou ...
, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera:
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Branchipodopsis''
G. O. Sars, 1898
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Branchipus''
Schaeffer, 1766
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Metabranchipus''
Masi, 1925
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Pumilibranchipus''
Hamer & Brendonck, 1995
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Rhinobranchipus''
Brendonck, 1995
One species, ''
Branchipodites vectensis''
Woodward
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* Woodward, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place
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, 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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References
Anostraca
Crustacean families
Extant Eocene first appearances
Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards
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