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Parapaguridae

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Family of crustaceans

Parapaguridae
Parapagurus pilosimanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Paguroidea
Family: Parapaguridae
S. I. Smith, 1882 

The Parapaguridae are a family of marine hermit crabs from deep waters. Instead of carrying empty gastropod shells like other hermit crabs, they carry colonies of dozen or more sea anemones or zoanthids. Some genera, such as Bivalvopagurus and Tylaspis, do not inhabit shells. The following genera are included:

References

  1. J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 132 pp.
  2. Poore, Gary C. B. (2004). Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide To Identification. Csiro Publishing. p. 279. ISBN 9780643069060.
  3. Patsy A. McLaughlin & Rafael Lemaitre (1997). "Carcinization in the Anomura – fact or fiction? I. Evidence from adult morphology". Contributions to Zoology. 67 (2): 79–123. doi:10.1163/18759866-06702001.
  4. Patsy McLaughlin & Michael Türkay (2011). Lemaitre R, McLaughlin P (eds.). "Parapaguridae". World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 16, 2012.

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Parapaguridae species
Bivalvopagurus Parapagurus pilosimanus
Mutotylaspis (†)
Oncopagurus
Paragiopagurus
Parapagurus
Probeebei
Strobopagurus
Sympagurus
Tsunogaipagurus
Tylaspis
Typhlopagurus
Taxon identifiers
Parapaguridae
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