Chirocephalidae
| Chirocephalidae | |
|---|---|
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| Chirocephalus diaphanus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Subphylum: | Crustacea | 
| Class: | Branchiopoda | 
| Order: | Anostraca | 
| 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
 
References
- 1 2 3 "Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
 - ↑ Miguel Alonso (1996). "Anostraca". Crustacea, Branchiopoda. Fauna Ibérica (in Spanish). 7. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. pp. 17–66. ISBN 978-84-00-07571-2.
 - ↑ Peter H. H. Weekers; Gopal Murugan; Jacques R. Vanfleteren; Denton Belk; Henri J. Dumont (2002). "Phylogenetic analysis of anostracans (Branchiopoda: Anostraca) inferred from nuclear 18S ribosomal DNA (18S rDNA) sequences" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 25 (3): 535–544. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00289-0. PMID 12450757.
 
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