Branchipodidae

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

Branchipodidae Temporal range: Late Eocene-Holocene
Branchipodopsis sp., male and female, from the Western Cape, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Branchiopoda
Order:	Anostraca
Suborder:	Anostracina
Family:	Branchipodidae H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 [1]

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.