Caprelloidea

Caprelloidea is a superfamily of marine crustaceans in the order Amphipoda. It includes "untypical" forms of amphipods, such as the skeleton shrimps (Caprellidae) and whale lice (Cyamidae). The group was formerly treated as one of the four amphipod suborders, Caprellidea, but has been moved down to the superfamily rank by Myers & Lowry (2003, 2013) after phylogenetic studies of the group, and is now contained in the infraorder Corophiida of the suborder Senticaudata.^[2][3][4] The group includes the following families.^[1]

• Caprellidae Leach, 1814
• Caprogammaridae Kudrjaschov & Vassilenko, 1966
• Cyamidae Rafinesque, 1815
• Dulichiidae Laubitz, 1983
• Podoceridae Leach, 1814

Caprelloidea
Pariambus typicus (male)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Amphipoda
Suborder:	Senticaudata
Infraorder:	Corophiida
Parvorder:	Caprellidira
Superfamily:	Caprelloidea Leach, 1814
Families
See text
Synonyms[1]
Caprellidea Leach, 1814

See also

• Caprellidira