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 ** Aetiopedesidae Myers & Lowry, 2003 ** 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 **

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 ** Caprogammaridae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966 **

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 ** Dulichiidae Laubitz, 1983 ** 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: *'' Cerapopsis'' Della Valle, 1893 *'' Cheirophotis'' Walker, 1904 *''Eurystheus'' *''Isaea ''Isaea'' is ...

Dana, 1853 ** Isaeidae Dana, 1853 *Superfamily Microprotopoidea Myers & Lowry, 2003 **

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 **

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 ano ...

Myers, 1981 **

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 de ...

Hirayama, 1988 *Superfamily Photoidea Boeck, 1871 **

Ischyroceridae Ischyroceridae is a family 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 mor ...

Stebbing, 1899 **

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 **

Photidae Photidae is a family of amphipod 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, amp ...

Boeck, 1871 *Superfamily

Rakirooidea ''Rakiroa'' is a monotypic genus of amphipods belonging to the monotypic family Rakiroidae. The only species is ''Rakiroa rima''. Both genus and species were first described in 1982 by James K. Lowry James Kenneth Lowry (born 1942) is a zoolog ...

Myers & Lowry, 2003 ** Rakiroidae Myers & Lowry, 2003

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