Caprellidira

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Caprellidira
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Pariambus typicus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Amphipoda
Suborder: Senticaudata
Infraorder: Corophiida
Parvorder: Caprellidira
Leach, 1814 [1]
Families

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Caprellidira is a parvorder of marine crustaceans of the infraorder Corophiida. The group includes skeleton shrimps (Caprellidae) and whale lice (Cyamidae).

Fifteen families are currently recognised in the group. They are grouped into seven superfamilies.[2][3][4]

  • Superfamily 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
  • Superfamily Myers & Lowry, 2003
    • Microprotopidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
  • Superfamily Myers, 1981
  • Superfamily Boeck, 1871
  • Superfamily Rakirooidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
    • Rakiroidae Myers & Lowry, 2003

References[]

  1. ^ "Caprellidira Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Claude De Broyer (2011). Lowry J (ed.). "Caprellida". World Amphipoda database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.

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