İpek, Mehmet;Özbek, Murat
Caprellidae
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Caprellidae is a family of amphipods commonly known as skeleton shrimps. Their common name denotes the threadlike slender body which allows them to virtually disappear among the fine filaments of seaweed, hydroids and bryozoans. They are sometimes also known as ghost shrimps.
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 61 inbound references to Caprellidae, and connects out to Senticaudata, Hydrozoa and Amphipoda.
Vinony files it under Amphipod families and Corophiida.
Vinony links it to 16 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
skeleton shrimps
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderAmphipoda
- FamilyCaprellidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded77,960
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,572
- With media
- 203
- Family
- Caprellidae
- Collections
- USNM, LACM, SIO, YPM, CAS
- Recorded in
- United States, French Polynesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Caprelloidea
- Image
- Pariambus typicus.jpg
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- taxon name
- Caprellidae
- taxon rank
- family
- Commons category
- Caprellidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Caprellidae
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