Caprella equilibra Say, 1818 Caprella equilibra Say, 1818: p. 391; McCain, 1968: p. 25, fig. 12–13; McCain & Steinberg 1970, p. 19; Cavedini, 1982: p. 500; Krapp-Schickel, 1993: p. 782–783, fig. 533; Guerra-García & Thiel, 2001: 878–879, fig. 6; Caprella monacantha Heller, 1866, p. 54, pl. 4, fig. 17–19; Caprella aequilibra Mayer, 1882, p. 45, pl. 1, fig. 7; pl. 2, fig. 1–11; pl. 4, fig. 20–25; pl. 5, fig. 16–18; Mayer, 1890, p. 48, pl. 2, fig. 42–43; pl. 4, fig. 35–37; pl. 6, fig. 18a, 37; Mayer, 1903, p. 89, pl. 3, fig. 29–34; pl. 7, fig. 66–69; Chevreux & Fage, 1925, p. 455, fig. 433; Fiorencis, 1940, pl. 13, fig. 3–4; pl. 1, fig. 3–4,7 Material. — Italy, Lagoon of Venice, Malamocco (45°25'N, 12°23' O). From brown algae on benches of Mytilus galloprovincialis. 0–2m. 21.04.04; 8 males, 13 juveniles and approx. 135 ready-to-hatch juveniles. María Fernanda Montoya leg. The collected material is deposited at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (ZSM), numbers A 20061408 -A 20061434. General diagnosis. With swimming setae on A2. Basis of Gn2 less than half as long as Pr2. With prominent ventral spine on Pr2 between the insertion sites of Gn2. Pr1, 2 lengthened in males (McCain, 1968) (Fig. 7).

Published as part of Lang, Carola, Krapp, Traudl & Melzer, Roland R., 2007, Postembryonal development in Caprellidae: SEM description and comparison of ready-to-hatch juveniles and adults of two Mediterranean skeleton shrimps (Crustacea: Amphipoda), pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 1605 (1) on page 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5098106