Caprella Lamarck, 1801

Caprella Lamarck, 1801 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Mandible lacking palp; incisor and lacinia mobilis each with 5 teeth and setae; molar well developed. Lower lip inner and outer lobes with dense, short setae. Maxilla 1 palp with spines and setae, outer plate with 6–8 bifid robust setae, inner plate absent. Maxilla 2 long with setae on apical margin. Maxilliped with inner plate shorter or equal to outer one, both with spines and setae. Antenna 2 flagellum with two articles. Pereopods 3–4 lacking. Pereopods 5–7 normal. Male: anterior pleopods generally with two articles, posterior pleopod rudimentary or lacking. Female without pleopods. Gills on pereonites 3–4.

Type species. Cancer linearis Linnaeus, 1767 (type by subsequent designation).

Species composition. Including this publication, 190 species. This includes 186 species as recorded in Horton et al. (2024) (both accepted and uncertain species), one newly resurrected species ( Caprella novaezealandiae Kirk, 1879 ) and three newly described species ( Caprella perplexa sp. nov., Caprella sarahae sp. nov., and Caprella serenae sp. nov.) reported in this paper.