{{Short description|Group of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Pariambus_typicus.jpg | image_caption = ''Pariambus typicus'' | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Caprellidira | authority = Leach, 1814&nbsp;<ref>{{ITIS |id=609953 |taxon=Caprellidira Leach, 1814 |accessdate=March 4, 2011}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Families | subdivision = See text }}

'''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.<ref>{{cite WoRMS |author=Claude De Broyer |year=2011 |title=Caprellida |db=Amphipoda |id=196120 |accessdate=August 31, 2011}}</ref><ref name="lecroy">{{cite book|author=Sara E. LeCroy|title =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|chapter =Appendix II: Revised Classification of the Corophiidea|publisher =Florida Department of Environmental Protection|year =2007|page=612}}</ref><ref name="myers">{{cite journal|author=A. A. Myers & J. K. Lowry|year=2003|title=A phylogeny and a new classification of the Corophiidea Leach, 1814 (Amphipoda)|journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=443–485 |doi=10.1651/0278-0372(2003)023[0443:APAANC]2.0.CO;2 |jstor=1549648}}</ref><ref name=Lowry2017>{{cite journal |url=http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4265.1.1/11015 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4265.1.1 |title=A Phylogeny and Classification of the Amphipoda with the establishment of the new order Ingolfiellida (Crustacea: Peracarida) |first1=J.K. |last1=Lowry |first2=A.A. |last2=Myers |journal=Zootaxa |publisher=Magnolia Press |volume=4265 |issue=1 |year=2017 |pages=001–089 |pmid=28610392 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

*'''Superfamily''' Aetiopedesoidea <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> **Aetiopedesidae <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> **Paragammaropsidae <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> *'''Superfamily''' Caprelloidea <small>Leach, 1814</small> **Caprellidae <small>Leach, 1814</small> - Skeleton shrimps **Caprogammaridae <small>Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966</small> **Cyamidae <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> - Whale lice **Dulichiidae <small>Laubitz, 1983</small> **Podoceridae <small>Leach, 1814</small> *'''Superfamily''' Isaeoidea <small>Dana, 1853</small> **Isaeidae <small>Dana, 1853</small> *'''Superfamily''' Microprotopoidea <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> **Australomicroprotopidae <small>Myers, Lowry & Billingham, 2016</small> **Microprotopidae <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> *'''Superfamily''' Neomegamphopoidea <small>Myers, 1981</small> **Neomegamphopidae <small>Myers, 1981</small> **Priscomilitariidae <small>Hirayama, 1988</small> *'''Superfamily''' Photoidea <small>Boeck, 1871</small> **Ischyroceridae <small>Stebbing, 1899</small> **Kamakidae <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> **Photidae <small>Boeck, 1871</small> *'''Superfamily''' Rakirooidea <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small> **Rakiroidae <small>Myers & Lowry, 2003</small>

==References== {{Reflist|45em}}

==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Caprellidira}} *{{Wikispecies-inline|Caprellida}}

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Category:Corophiida

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