Skeleton shrimp

Skeleton shrimp

Taxobox
name = Skeleton shrimp


image_width = 300px
image_caption = "Pariambus typicus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
superordo = Peracarida
ordo = Amphipoda
subordo = Corophiidea
infraordo = Caprellida
infraordo_authority = Leach, 1814
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision = see text

Skeleton shrimp are marine crustaceans of the infraorder Caprellida. The name denotes the threadlike slender body which allows them virtually to disappear among the fine filaments of seaweed, hydroids and bryozoans. Most species are predators, some are filter feeders. Skeleton shrimps accentuate their adaptive form and colouration by assuming an angular pose, resembling that of the fronds among which they live. [Encarta Reference Library Premium 2005 DVD. Article - Skeleton Shrimp] They remain motionless for long periods of time while waiting to ambush their prey, often protozoa or small worms. Females of some species of skeleton shrimp kill the males after mating, using venom injected by a venomous claw.

Predators of the skeleton shrimp include gobies of the genus "Pomatoschistus".

Some species

*"Caprella laeviuscula" smooth skeleton shrimp
*"Aeginella longicornis" long-horn skeleton shrimp
*"Caprella californica" California skeleton shrimp

Families

Superfamily Aetiopedesoidea
*Aetiopedesidae
*ParagammaropsidaeSuperfamily Caprelloidea Leach, 1814
*Caprellidae Leach, 1814
*Caprogammaridae Kudrjaschov and Vassilenko, 1966
*Cyamidae
*Dulichiidae
*PodoceridaeSuperfamily Isaeoidea
*IsaeidaeSuperfamily Microprotopoidea
*MicroprotopodidaeSuperfamily Neomegamphopoidea
*Neomegamphopodidae
*PriscomilitariidaeSuperfamily Photoidea
*Ischyroceridae
*Kamakidae
*PhotidaeSuperfamily Rakirooidae
*Rakiroidae

References

* [http://www.imv.uit.no/amphipod/anmain.htm the Amphipod Newsletter] .
* [http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=609953 Taxonomy of "Caprellida"] from ITIS.

External links

* [http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02alaska/logs/jul12/jul12.html Some information on "Caprella bathytatos"] .
* [http://www.starfish.ch/collection/isopods-copepods.html#Amphipoda Photos of Skeleton shrimps] .


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