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Caprella scaura

Status not recordedcrustaceans

Caprella scaura is a species in the family Caprellidae, order Amphipoda.

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Quick facts about Caprella scaura

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does Caprella scaura live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Caprella scaura as introduced in 10 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.

  1. Italyinvasive
  2. Australia
  3. France
  4. Greece
  5. Malta
  6. Morocco
  7. Portugal
  8. Spain
  9. Türkiye
  10. United States

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Caprella scaura endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Caprella scaura classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classMalacostraca
  4. orderAmphipoda
  5. familyCaprellidae
  6. genusCaprella
  7. SpeciesCaprella scaura Templeton, 1836

Synonyms Caprella attenuata, Caprella cornuta, Caprella cornuta f. obtusirostris, Caprella nodosa, Caprella scaura f. typica, Caprella scaura scaura, Caprella scaura typica

Other names and names in other languages (3)
  • トゲワレカラJapanese
  • 뾰족머리바다대벌레Korean
  • gehoornde spookkreeftDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Caprella scaura

Other species in the same genus Caprella.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is Caprella scaura an invasive species?

In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags Caprella scaura as invasive in 1 country: Italy. It lists it as introduced in 10 in all.

What kind of animal is Caprella scaura?

Caprella scaura (Caprella scaura) belongs to the family Caprellidae in the order Amphipoda.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Caprella scaura (Caprella scaura). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/caprella-scaura

MLA

“Caprella scaura (Caprella scaura).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/caprella-scaura.

BibTeX
@misc{caprella_scaura_2026,
  title = {Caprella scaura (Caprella scaura)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/caprella-scaura},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}