Branchipodidae

{{Short description|Family of small freshwater animals}}

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| fossil_range = Late Eocene-Holocene

| image = Branchiopoda Anostraca Branchipodopsis 2014 01 25 4802s.JPG

| image_caption = Branchipodopsis sp., male and female, from the Western Cape, South Africa

| taxon = Branchipodidae

| authority = H. Milne-Edwards, 1840 {{cite journal |author1=Jan Brtek |author2=Graziella Mura |name-list-style=amp |year=2000 |title=Revised key to families and genera of the Anostraca with notes on their geographical distribution |journal=Crustaceana |volume=73 |issue=9 |pages=1037–1088 |jstor=20106379 |doi=10.1163/156854000505083}}

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Branchipodidae is a family of fairy shrimp, one of eight in the order Anostraca. It contains 35 extant species in five extant genera:{{cite journal |author=Luc Brendonck |author2=D. Christopher Rogers |author3=Jorgen Olesen |author4=Stephen Weeks |author5=Walter R. Hoch |year=2008 |title=Global diversity of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in freshwater |journal=Hydrobiologia |volume=595 |issue=1 |pages=167–176 |doi=10.1007/s10750-007-9119-9}}

• 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.