Taxonomy

Animalia

Arthropoda

Malacostraca

Amphipoda

C. C. Caprella alaskana

Alaskan Skeleton Shrimp

From-Alaska Little-goat Little-goat-like

Caprelloidea is a superfamily of marine crustaceans in the order Amphipoda. It includes "untypical" forms of amphipods, such as the skeleton shrimps (Caprellidae) and whale lice (Cyamidae). The group was formerly treated as one of the four amphipod suborders, Caprellidea, but has been moved down to the superfamily rank by Myers & Lowry (2003, 2013) after phylogenetic studies of the group, and is now contained in the infraorder Corophiida of the suborder Senticaudata. The group includes the following families.

Caprelloidea. Retrieved November, 05 2021, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprelloidea.


Caprellidae is a family of amphipods commonly known as skeleton shrimps. Their common name denotes the threadlike slender body which allows them to virtually disappear among the fine filaments of seaweed, hydroids and bryozoans. They are sometimes also known as ghost shrimps. Caprellidae contains 88 genera in three subfamilies.

Caprellidae. Retrieved November, 05 2021, from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprellidae.