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Caprella scauroides

Status not recordedcrustaceans

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

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Quick facts about Caprella scauroides

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 scauroides live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Caprella scauroides as introduced in 1 country.

  1. New Zealand

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 scauroides 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 scauroides classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classMalacostraca
  4. orderAmphipoda
  5. familyCaprellidae
  6. genusCaprella
  7. SpeciesCaprella scauroides Mayer, 1903

Synonyms Caprella scaura f. scauroides, Caprella scaura scauroides

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Caprella scauroides

Other species in the same genus Caprella.

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Common questions

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Is Caprella scauroides an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Caprella scauroides as introduced in 1 country: New Zealand, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Caprella scauroides?

Caprella scauroides (Caprella scauroides) 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 scauroides (Caprella scauroides). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/caprella-scauroides

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{caprella_scauroides_2026,
  title = {Caprella scauroides (Caprella scauroides)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/caprella-scauroides},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}