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deepwater hermit crabs
Parapaguridae
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:
Bivalvopagurus Lemaitre, 1993
10 branches of this family, most-observed first
Parapagurus
genusParapagurus
Paragiopagurus
genusParagiopagurus
Sympagurus
genusSympagurus
Strobopagurus
genusStrobopagurus
Typhlopagurus
genusTyphlopagurus
Tylaspis
genusTylaspis
Probeebei
genusProbeebei
Tsunogaipagurus
genusTsunogaipagurus
Bivalvopagurus
genusBivalvopagurus
Oncopagurus
genusOncopagurus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48171.