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:
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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