Branchipodidae

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Kingdom Animalia Class Branchiopoda Rank Family		Subphylum Crustacea Phylum Arthropoda Order Anostraca
Similar Anostraca, Thamnocephalidae, Branchinecta, Branchipus, Branchipodopsis

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 genera, 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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Branchipodidae Wikipedia

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