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Family of small freshwater animals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Branchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera:[2]
Branchipodidae | |
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Branchipodopsis sp., male and female, from the Western Cape, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Branchiopoda |
Order: | Anostraca |
Suborder: | Anostracina |
Family: | Branchipodidae H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 [1] |
One species, Branchipodites vectensis Woodward, 1879, in an extinct genus, 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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