Caprellidira is a parvorder of marine crustaceans of the infraorder Corophiida. The group includes skeleton shrimps (Caprellidae) and whale lice (Cyamidae).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Suborder: | Senticaudata |
| Infraorder: | Corophiida |
| Parvorder: | Caprellidira Leach, 1814 [1] |
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Fifteen families are currently recognised in the group. They are grouped into seven superfamilies.[2][3][4][5]
- Superfamily Aetiopedesoidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
- Aetiopedesidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
- Paragammaropsidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
- Superfamily Caprelloidea Leach, 1814
- Caprellidae Leach, 1814 - Skeleton shrimps
- Caprogammaridae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966
- Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815 - Whale lice
- Dulichiidae Laubitz, 1983
- Podoceridae Leach, 1814
- Superfamily Isaeoidea Dana, 1853
- Isaeidae Dana, 1853
- Superfamily Microprotopoidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
- Australomicroprotopidae Myers, Lowry & Billingham, 2016
- Microprotopidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
- Superfamily Neomegamphopoidea Myers, 1981
- Neomegamphopidae Myers, 1981
- Priscomilitariidae Hirayama, 1988
- Superfamily Photoidea Boeck, 1871
- Ischyroceridae Stebbing, 1899
- Kamakidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
- Photidae Boeck, 1871
- Superfamily Rakirooidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
- Rakiroidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
References edit
- ^ "Caprellidira Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
- ^ Claude De Broyer (2011). Lowry J (ed.). "Caprellida". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
- ^ Sara E. LeCroy (2007). "Appendix II: Revised Classification of the Corophiidea". An Illustrated Identification Guide to the Nearshore Marine and Estuarine Gammaridean Amphipoda of Florida. Volume 4: Families Anamixidae, Eusiridae, Hyalellidae, Hyalidae, Iphimediidae, Ischyroceridae, Lysianassidae, Megaluropidae, and Melphidippidae. Florida Department of Environmental Protection. p. 612.
- ^ A. A. Myers & J. K. Lowry (2003). "A phylogeny and a new classification of the Corophiidea Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 23 (2): 443–485. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2003)023[0443:APAANC]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 1549648.
- ^ Lowry, J.K.; Myers, A.A. (2017). "A Phylogeny and Classification of the Amphipoda with the establishment of the new order Ingolfiellida (Crustacea: Peracarida)". Zootaxa. 4265 (1). Magnolia Press: 001–089. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4265.1.1. PMID 28610392.
External links edit
Media related to Caprellidira at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Caprellida at Wikispecies
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