Parapaguridae

Parapaguridae
Parapagurus pilosimanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Paguroidea
Family: Parapaguridae
S. I. Smith, 1882 [1]

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.[2] Some genera, such as Bivalvopagurus and Tylaspis, do not inhabit shells.[3] The following genera are included:[4]

  • Bivalvopagurus Lemaitre, 1993
  • Oncopagurus Lemaitre, 1996
  • Paragiopagurus Lemaitre, 1996
  • Parapagurus Smith, 1879
  • Probeebei Boone, 1926
  • Strobopagurus Lemaitre, 1989
  • Sympagurus Smith, 1883
  • Tsunogaipagurus Osawa, 1995
  • Tylaspis Henderson, 1885
  • Typhlopagurus de Saint Laurent, 1972

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. https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZWnuGc0xlMC&pg=PA279#v=onepage&q&f=false
  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.
  4. Patsy McLaughlin & Michael Türkay (2011). R. Lemaitre & P. McLaughlin, eds. "Parapaguridae". World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 16, 2012.


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