Caprella linearis (linear skeleton shrimp) is a species of skeleton shrimp in the genus Caprella.

[1] 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.

It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767 as "Cancer linearis".

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