Chirocephalidae
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| Chirocephalidae | |
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| File:Chirocephalus diaphanus Baird.jpg | |
| Chirocephalus diaphanus | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Branchiopoda |
| Order: | Anostraca |
| Suborder: | Anostracina |
| Family: | Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910 [1] |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Chirocephalidae is a family of fairy shrimp, characterised by a reduced or vestigial maxilla, more than two setae on the fifth endite, divided pre-epipodites and widely separated seminal vesicles.[2] It consists of the following eight genera, including the genera formerly placed in the families Linderiellidae and Polyartemiidae:[1][3]
- Artemiopsis G. O. Sars, 1897
- Branchinectella Daday de Dées, 1910
- Chirocephalus Prévost, 1820
- †Dexteria Brtek, 1965
- Eubranchipus Verrill, 1870
- Linderiella Brtek, 1964
- Polyartemia Fischer, 1851
- Polyartemiella Daday de Dées, 1909
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