Branchipodidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Classis: Branchiopoda
Superordo: Sarsostraca
Ordo: Anostraca
Subordo: Anostracina
Familia: Branchipodidae
Genera: Australobranchipus - Branchipodopsis - Branchipus - Metabranchipus - Parartemia - Pumilibranchipus - Rhinobranchipus

Branchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera:[2]

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.
References

Jan Brtek & Graziella Mura (2000). "Revised key to families and genera of the Anostraca with notes on their geographical distribution". Crustaceana. 73 (9): 1037–1088. doi:10.1163/156854000505083. JSTOR 20106379.
Luc Brendonck; D. Christopher Rogers; Jorgen Olesen; Stephen Weeks; Walter R. Hoch (2008). "Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater". Hydrobiologia. 595 (1): 167–176. doi:10.1007/s10750-007-9119-9.