Chirocephalidae

Chirocephalidae
Chirocephalidae
Chirocephalus diaphanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Family: Chirocephalidae
Daday de Dées, 1910 [1]
Synonyms [1]
  • Linderiellidae Brtek, 1964
  • Polyartemiidae Simon, 1886

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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