Chirocephalidae | |
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Chirocephalus diaphanus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Branchiopoda |
Order: | Anostraca |
Suborder: | Anostracina |
Family: |
Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910 [1] |
Synonyms [1] | |
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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]
Chirocephalidae | |
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Chirocephalus diaphanus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Branchiopoda |
Order: | Anostraca |
Suborder: | Anostracina |
Family: |
Chirocephalidae Daday de Dées, 1910 [1] |
Synonyms [1] | |
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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]