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. It consists of the following eight genera including the genera formerly placed in the families Linderiellidae and Polyartemiidae:Artemiopsis G. O.
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