Caprelloidea is a

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

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 gro ...

s in 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 or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far desc ...

. It includes "untypical" forms of amphipods, such as the skeleton shrimps (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). The group was formerly treated as one of the four amphipod

suborder 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 ...

s, Caprellidea, but has been moved down to the superfamily rank by Myers & Lowry (2003, 2013) after

phylogenetic In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...

studies of the group, and is now contained in the infraorder Corophiida of the suborder Senticaudata.Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (2013
A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda)
Zootaxa 3610 (1): 1-80.Senticaudata

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The group includes the following families. *

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 Rafinesque, 1815: Whale lice * Dulichiidae Laubitz, 1983 * Podoceridae Leach, 1814

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* * Corophiidea Arthropod superfamilies {{amphipod-stub

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