# Caprellidira

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{{Short description|Group of crustaceans}}
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| image = Pariambus_typicus.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Pariambus typicus](/source/Pariambus_typicus)''
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Caprellidira
| authority = [Leach](/source/William_Elford_Leach), 1814&nbsp;<ref>{{ITIS |id=609953 |taxon=Caprellidira Leach, 1814 |accessdate=March 4, 2011}}</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Families
| subdivision = See text
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'''Caprellidira''' is a parvorder of marine [crustacean](/source/crustacean)s of the [infraorder](/source/infraorder) [Corophiida](/source/Corophiida). The group includes [skeleton shrimp](/source/skeleton_shrimp)s (Caprellidae) and [whale lice](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Zootaxa) |publisher=[Magnolia Press](/source/Magnolia_Press) |volume=4265 |issue=1 |year=2017 |pages=001–089 |pmid=28610392 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

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

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

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Category:Corophiida

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