Chirocephalidae

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: Chirocephalidae
Genera: Artemiopsis - Branchinectella - Chirocephalus - Dexteria - Drepanosurus - Eubranchipus - Linderiella - Parartemiopsis - Polyartemia - Polyartemiella
Name

Chirocephalidae Daday, 1910

References

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Boix, D., Sala, J., Escoriza, D. & Alonso, M. 2016. Linderiella jebalae sp. nov. (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Anostraca), a new species from the Rif mountains (northern Morocco). Zootaxa 4138(3): 491–512. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.3.4. Reference page.
Shu, S-S., Chen, X-Y., Rogers, D.C. & Sanoamuang, L. 2023. Parartemiopsis shangrilaensis, a new species of fairy shrimp (Branchiopoda, Anostraca) from Yunnan, with a key to the Chirocephalidae of China. Zookeys 1168ː 355–366. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1168.104005 Open access Reference page.

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

"Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 21, 2011.
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.
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.