Caprelloidea is a
superfamily 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 (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
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.
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Caprellidae Leach, 1814: Skeleton shrimps
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Caprogammaridae
''Caprogammarus'' is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the monotypic family Caprogammaridae.
Species:
*''Caprogammarus gurjanove''
*''Caprogammarus micropleopodus
''Caprogammarus'' is a genus of crustaceans
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) fo ...
Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966
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Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815: Whale lice
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Dulichiidae
Dulichiidae 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 detritivor ...
Laubitz, 1983
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Podoceridae
Podoceridae 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 more t ...
Leach, 1814
See also
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Caprellidira
References
External links
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Corophiidea
Arthropod superfamilies
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