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Chirocephalidae

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. It consists of the following eight genera, including the genera formerly placed in the families Linderiellidae and Polyartemiidae: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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Chirocephalidae
Chirocephalus diaphanus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Anostraca
Suborder: Anostracina
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:13

  • 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

References

  1. "Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
  2. Miguel Alonso (1996). "Anostraca". Crustacea, Branchiopoda. Fauna Ibérica (in Spanish). Vol. 7. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. pp. 17–66. ISBN 978-84-00-07571-2.
  3. 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.