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 amphipod suborders, Caprellidea, but has been moved down to the superfamily rank by Myers & Lowry (2003, 2013) after phylogenetic studies of the group, and is now contained in the infraorder Corophiida of the suborder Senticaudata.[2][3][4] The group includes the following families.[1]
- Caprellidae Leach, 1814: Skeleton shrimps
- Caprogammaridae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966
- Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815: Whale lice
- Dulichiidae Laubitz, 1983
- Podoceridae Leach, 1814
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Suborder: | Senticaudata |
| Infraorder: | Corophiida |
| Parvorder: | Caprellidira |
| Superfamily: | Caprelloidea Leach, 1814 |
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See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Horton, T.& De Broyer, C. (2013). Lowry J (ed.). "Caprelloidea". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ 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:10.1163/20021975-99990353.
- ^ Lowry, J.K. & Myers, A.A. (2013) A Phylogeny and Classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zootaxa 3610 (1): 1-80.
- ^ Senticaudata WoRMS
External links
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