Ghost Shrimp

The Caprella linearis is a shrimp-like animal with strange looks. Some call it the skeleton shrimp, and it definitely lives up to this name. Caprella use their long pincers to catch zooplankton. They fish this food out of the flowing water with a mowing motion, while hooked with their hind legs to a hard object or ground. Numerous amounts of Caprella can be found between bunches of red seaweed, sponges and hydroids.

Caprella linearis (linear skeleton shrimp) is a species of skeleton shrimp in the genus Caprella. It is native to the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and the Arctic Ocean. It closely resembles Caprella septentrionalis with which it shares the same geographical distribution.

Caprella linearis is the type species of the genus Caprella. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767 as "Cancer linearis".

Arctic to Long Island Sound, including Cobscook Bay

Found from the intertidal zone to 201 m depth on algae, sponges, hydroids and tunicates.