Caprella


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Related to Caprella: Cymothoidae, Gammarus, Skeleton shrimps
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Noun1.Caprella - skeleton shrimpCaprella - skeleton shrimp      
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Amphipoda, order Amphipoda - small flat-bodied semiterrestrial crustaceans: whale lice; sand-hoppers; skeleton shrimp
skeleton shrimp - small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed
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Two new species of deep-water Caprella (Peracarida, Amphipoda, Caprellidae) from the Pacific coast of Mexico collected during the talud XIV cruise, with a checklist of species of caprellidae recorded for the Eastern Pacific.
and Caprella sp., oligo-chaetes (e.g., Tubificoides sp.), and echinoderms (e.g., Amphipholis sp.) were also present.
Effect of temperature on growth and maturation pattern of Caprella mutica (Crustacea, Amphipoda): does the temperature-size rule function in caprellids?
Epizoites on marine invertebrates: with particular reference to those associated with the pycnogonid Phoxichilidium tubulariae Lebour, the amphipod Caprella linearis (L.) and the decapod Corystes cassivelaunus (Pennant).
higher than when beating Caprella at Roscommon last time and, with in-form local apprentice Leigh Roche in the saddle, might pounce late, for at least a share of the spoils.
The topics include Caprella takedai, a new species of caprellid amphipod from off Ito, the east coast of Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka, Japan; the first zoea of Porcellanopagurus truncatifrons Takeda, 1981 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) described from laboratory-hatched material; remarkable zoeas of two species of deep-sea spider crabs; additional species of deep-sea pontoniine shrimps from Taiwan, with a description of one new species; and Griffinia takedai, a new species of deep-sea majoid crab from the Philippines.
Las diferencias en los componentes de la dieta entre tallas y sexos observadas en Mangle Quemao, se ha reportado para otras especies de anfipodos donde las hembras y los machos presentan una composicion de acidos grasos significativamente diferentes entre si, tal y como ocurre en las especies de caprelidos como Caprella acanthifera Leach 1814, C.
Two additional cheeses doing well for Citarella's are a washed-rind goat's milk cheese from Caprella in Piedmont and Roccolo, a washed-rind cow's milk from Lombardi.