Chirocephalus baikalensis

Brtek (1966) divided the genus Eubranchipus into several subgenera based upon various characters. The validity of these subgenera needs to be re­evaluated. Brtek’s subgenus Creaseria, however, is a preoccupied name (ICZN, 2000), having been originally used by Holthuis in 1950 to name a South American genus of fresh­water Palaemonid shrimps. Brtek (1966, 1967) defined this Eubranchipus sub­genus to include: Eubranchipus oregonus Creaser, 1930; E. neglectus Garman, 1926; E. holmani (Ryder, 1879), and; E. moorei Brtek, 1967. Brtek (1964, 1965, 1966) erected the family Linderiellidae to encompass Linderiella and Dexteria Brtek, 1965, and the family Artemiopsidae Brtek, 1966 for Artemiopsis, which were later subsumed back into the Chirocephalidae by Belk (in Martin & Davis, 2001) and (with the Polyartemiidae) Weekers et al. (2002). The family is redefined here.