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

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). 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.