least skeleton shrimp

Phtisica marina

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Caprellidae

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).

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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