Talk:Caprellidira

Discrepancy? probably not
Wow, thanks for putting this together so quickly, but EB calls Caprellidae the family. Is that incorrect, or are there just different systems of calling the taxonomy? Either way, I think the article would be even better by explaining the discrepancy. ie, why would EB call it that? - Taxman Talk 12:08, July 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't know. I just followed ITIS, who have "skeleton shrimp" for the first time alone on the infraorder. I did the taxobox and found some images; otehr than that, I know even less about these animals than I did about krill a few weeks ago :-) Lupo 15:06, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh duh, never mind. Looking at your taxobox again I see the family name is also listed as Caprellidae. Rather confusing, but if you pulled it from ITIS, I guess it's right. - Taxman Talk 15:19, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

problem with name
I don't think this article can be kept as it is at all. 'Skeleton shrimps' refer to only those shrimps which actually do have the stick insect body form referred to in the article's first paragraph. The infraorder is actually considerably more morphologically diverse than that. The term 'skeleton shrimp' should more properly be confined to the family Caprellidae. I can change it, of course but perhaps one of the wiki arthropod specialists would be better at it?

Seascapeza (talk) 09:42, 23 March 2011 (UTC)