Caprellidira is a parvorder of marine
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s of the
infraorder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
Corophiida
Corophiida is an infraorder of amphipods that contains the two parvorders Caprellidira (skeleton shrimp and whale lice) and Corophiidira.
In 2003-2013 this group was treated as a suborder, Corophiidea, which in turn had been re-established to co ...
. The group includes
skeleton shrimp
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 sometim ...
s (Caprellidae) and
whale lice
A whale louse is a commensal crustacean of the family Cyamidae. Despite the name, it is not a true louse (which are insects), but rather is related to the skeleton shrimp, most species of which are found in shallower waters. Whale lice are extern ...
(Cyamidae).
Fifteen families are currently recognised in the group. They are grouped into seven superfamilies.
*Superfamily
Aetiopedesoidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Aetiopedesidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Paragammaropsidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
*Superfamily
Caprelloidea
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 amp ...
Leach, 1814
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Caprellidae
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 sometime ...
Leach, 1814 - Skeleton shrimps
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Caprogammaridae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966
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Cyamidae
A whale louse is a commensal crustacean of the family Cyamidae. Despite the name, it is not a true louse (which are insects), but rather is related to the skeleton shrimp, most species of which are found in shallower waters. Whale lice are extern ...
Rafinesque, 1815 - Whale lice
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Dulichiidae Laubitz, 1983
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Podoceridae Leach, 1814
*Superfamily
Isaeoidea
Isaeidae is a family of amphipods. It is the only family classified under the superfamily Isaeoidea. It contains the following genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil or ...
Dana, 1853
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Isaeidae Dana, 1853
*Superfamily
Microprotopoidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Microprotopidae
''Microprotopus'' is a genus of amphipods
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are mo ...
Myers & Lowry, 2003
*Superfamily
Neomegamphopoidea Myers, 1981
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Neomegamphopidae
Neomegamphopidae is a family of amphipods, comprising the two genera '' Maragopsis'' and '' Neomegamphopus''. A third genus, ''Komatopus'', may be a synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as a ...
Myers, 1981
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Priscomilitariidae
Priscomilitaridae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detr ...
Hirayama, 1988
*Superfamily
Photoidea Boeck, 1871
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Ischyroceridae
Ischyroceridae is a family of amphipods. It contains the following genera:
*'' Ambicholestes'' Just, 1998
*'' Bonnierella'' Chevreux, 1900
*'' Cerapus'' Say, 1817
*'' Ericthonius'' Milne-Edwards, 1830
*'' Ischyrocerus'' Krøyer, 1838
*''Jassa
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Stebbing, 1899
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Kamakidae
Kamakidae is a family of amphipods belonging to the order Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores ...
Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Photidae
Photidae is a family of amphipod crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapoda, decapods, ostracoda, seed shrimp, branchiopoda, branchiopods, argulidae, fish lice, krill, rem ...
Boeck, 1871
*Superfamily
Rakirooidea
''Rakiroa'' is a monotypic genus of amphipod
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There ar ...
Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Rakiroidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
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