Taxon classification Animalia Chirodropida

Family Chiropsellidae fam. n.

Family diagnosis.

Chirodropida with unbranched gastric saccules. Gastric phacellae V-shaped or horseshoe shaped. Sensory niches U-shaped, with medial flap on upper rhopaliar scale. Pedalial canal bend slight volcano or knee-shaped. Pedalia four, branched with 5 to 11 tentacles or unbranched with one tentacle.

Type genus.

Chiropsella Gershwin, 2006.

Chiropsella bronzie Gershwin, 2006: 25-36, pl. 4-6.

Chiropsella bart Gershwin & Alderslade, 2006: 15-21, figs 1-4.

Chiropsella rudloei Bentlage, 2013: 1-7, figs 1-3.