Branchinectidae is a

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

in the order

Anostraca Anostraca is one of the four orders of crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda; its members are referred to as fairy shrimp. They live in vernal pools and hypersaline lakes across the world, and they have even been found in deserts, ice-covered m ...

(fairy shrimp), containing two genera – '' Branchinecta'' and '' Archaebranchinecta''. The majority of the species are in the genus ''Branchinecta'', with only '' Archaebranchinecta pollicifera'' and the fossil '' Archaebranchinecta barstowensis'' in the second genus.

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Anostraca Crustacean families {{Branchiopoda-stub