The scientific family name for skeleton shrimp and ghost shrimp, small crustaceans that live in marine environments.
From Caprella, the genus name, plus -idae, the standard Latin suffix for animal families used in taxonomy.
The Caprellidae family contains some of the ocean's weirdest creatures—their body structure is so different from normal shrimp that scientists had to create an entirely new family just to describe them!
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