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Caprella
Caprella is a large genus of skeleton shrimps belonging to the subfamily Caprellinae of the family Caprellidae. It includes approximately 170 species. The genus was first established by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in his great work Système des animaux sans vertèbres (1801) to describe Cancer linearis (now Caprella linearis) and Squilla ventricosa (now Phtisica marina).
45 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Japanese Skeleton Shrimp
speciesCaprella mutica
Caprella penantis
speciesCaprella penantis
Caprella scaura
speciesCaprella scaura
Caprella acanthifera
speciesCaprella acanthifera
Linear skeleton shrimp
speciesCaprella linearis
Caprella californica
speciesCaprella californica
Caprella equilibra
speciesCaprella equilibra
Caprella septentrionalis
speciesCaprella septentrionalis
Caprella alaskana
speciesCaprella alaskana
Caprella laeviuscula
speciesCaprella laeviuscula
Caprella danilevskii
speciesCaprella danilevskii
Caprella andreae
speciesCaprella andreae
Caprella verrucosa
speciesCaprella verrucosa
Caprella mendax
speciesCaprella mendax
Caprella irregularis
speciesCaprella irregularis
Caprella suprapiscis
speciesCaprella suprapiscis
Caprella fretensis
speciesCaprella fretensis
Caprella liparotensis
speciesCaprella liparotensis
Caprella drepanochir
speciesCaprella drepanochir
Caprella angusta
speciesCaprella angusta
Caprella dilatata
speciesCaprella dilatata
Caprella ferrea
speciesCaprella ferrea
Caprella tsugarensis
speciesCaprella tsugarensis
Caprella kroyeri
speciesCaprella kroyeri
Caprella hirsuta
speciesCaprella hirsuta
Caprella tuberculata
speciesCaprella tuberculata
Caprella polyacantha
speciesCaprella polyacantha
Caprella scauroides
speciesCaprella scauroides
Caprella dubia
speciesCaprella dubia
Caprella natalensis
speciesCaprella natalensis
Caprella incisa
speciesCaprella incisa
Caprella glabra
speciesCaprella glabra
Caprella okadai
speciesCaprella okadai
Caprella subinermis
speciesCaprella subinermis
Caprella rhopalochir
speciesCaprella rhopalochir
Caprella circur
speciesCaprella circur
Caprella laevipes
speciesCaprella laevipes
Caprella triodos
speciesCaprella triodos
Caprella bathytatos
speciesCaprella bathytatos
Caprella uniforma
speciesCaprella uniforma
Caprella brevirostris
speciesCaprella brevirostris
Caprella acanthogaster
speciesCaprella acanthogaster
Caprella kominatoensis
speciesCaprella kominatoensis
Caprella gigantochir
speciesCaprella gigantochir
Caprella manneringi
speciesCaprella manneringi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47629.