Parapaguridae

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 [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. ^ 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.
  • Data related to Parapaguridae at Wikispecies
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