Tags: Crustacean.

Caprella linearis is a species of skeleton shrimp in the genus Caprella. It is native to the North Atlantic North Pacific and the Arctic Ocean. It closely resembles Caprella septentrionalis with which it shares the same geographical distribution.Caprella linearis is the type species of the genus Caprella. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767 as Cancer linearis.

binomial authority
Carl Linnaeus, 12th edition of Systema Naturae
class
Malacostraca
family
Caprellidae
genus
Caprella
kingdom
Animal
order
Amphipoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Cancer linearis (Linnaeus 1767), *Caprella laevis (Goodsir 1842), *Caprella lobata (Bate 1856), *Gammarus quadrilobatus (Abildgaard 1789), *Oniscus scolopendroides (Pallas 1772), *Squilla lobata (Müller 1776), *Squilla quadrilobata (Abildgaard 1788)

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