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Definition of Genus Caprella
1. Noun. Skeleton shrimp.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Amphipoda, Order Amphipoda
Member holonyms: Skeleton Shrimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Caprella
Literary usage of Genus Caprella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... and also a species which resembles these in having palpi on the mandibles,
but in which the abdomen is constructed as in the genus Caprella, ..."
2. A History of the British Sessile-eyed Crustacea by Charles Spence Bate, John Obadiah Westwood (1868)
"... an order founded by Latreille to separate the genus Caprella from the ISOPODA,
amongst which naturalists had previously arranged it. ..."
3. The Depths of the Sea: An Account of the General Results of the Dredging by Charles Wyville Thomson, William Benjamin Carpenter, John Gwyn Jeffreys (1873)
"... the genus Caprella, the odd-looking group of skeleton shrimps which fix
themselves by their hind claspers, usually in this locality to branching sponges ..."
4. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1875)
"Would changes of the poles be any more wonderful or impossible ? Observations on
the genus Caprella, and Description of a New Species. ..."
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