Branchipodidae Explained

Branchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera:^[1]

• Branchipodopsis G. O. Sars, 1898
• Branchipus Schaeffer, 1766
• Metabranchipus Masi, 1925
• Pumilibranchipus Hamer & Brendonck, 1995
• Rhinobranchipus Brendonck, 1995

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.

Notes and References

1. Luc Brendonck . D. Christopher Rogers . Jorgen Olesen . Stephen Weeks . Walter R. Hoch . 2008 . Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater . . 595 . 1 . 167–176 . 10.1007/s10750-007-9119-9.