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 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 ...
. 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 sometime ...
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 exter ...
(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 amph ...
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 sometim ...
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 exter ...
Rafinesque, 1815 - Whale lice
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Dulichiidae Laubitz, 1983
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Podoceridae Leach, 1814
*Superfamily
Isaeoidea Dana, 1853
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Isaeidae Dana, 1853
*Superfamily
Microprotopoidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Microprotopidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
*Superfamily
Neomegamphopoidea Myers, 1981
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Neomegamphopidae Myers, 1981
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Priscomilitariidae 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
...
Stebbing, 1899
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Kamakidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Photidae Boeck, 1871
*Superfamily
Rakirooidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Rakiroidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
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Corophiidea
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