Poupin, Joseph;Corbari, Laure;Pérez, Thierry;Chevaldonné, Pierre
Parapaguridae
Sign in to saveThe 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, do not inhabit shells. The following genera are included:
Species
deepwater hermit crabs
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyParapaguridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 237
- With media
- 49
- Family
- Parapaguridae
- Collections
- SIO, USNM, NMV, MNHN
- Recorded in
- United States, Malaysia, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Ecuador, Colombia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Paguroidea
- Image
- Parapagurus pilosimanus.png
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- taxon name
- Parapaguridae
- taxon rank
- family
- topic's main category
- Category:Parapaguridae
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- Parapaguridae
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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, do not inhabit shells. The following genera are included:
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parapaguridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.