Caprellidira

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

Caprellidira
Pariambus typicus
Scientific classification
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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Fifteen families are currently recognised in the group. They are grouped into seven superfamilies.[2][3][4]

  • 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
  • Superfamily Microprotopoidea Myers & Lowry, 2003
    • Microprotopidae Myers & Lowry, 2003
  • Superfamily Neomegamphopoidea Myers, 1981
  • Superfamily Photoidea 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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