Paguridae

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Paguridae
Pagurus bernhardus.jpg
Pagurus bernhardus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Paguroidea
Family: Paguridae
Latreille, 1802

The Paguridae are a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda. This family contains 542 species in over 70 genera:[1][2]. The king crabs, Lithodoidea, are now widely undestood to be derived from deep within the Paguridae, with some authors placing their ancestors within the genus Pagurus.[3]

References

  1. ^ Patsy A. McLaughlin; Tomoyuki Komai; Rafael Lemaitre & Dwi Listyo Rahayu (2010). Martyn E. Y. Low & S. H. Tan (eds.). "Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) Part I – Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 23: 5–107. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-02.
  2. ^ Patsy McLaughlin, Michael Türkay (2011). Lemaitre R, McLaughlin P (eds.). "Paguridae". World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Cunningham, C. W.; Blackstone, N. W.; Buss, L. W. (1992). "Evolution of king crabs from hermit crab ancestors". Nature. 355 (6360): 539–542. Bibcode:1992Natur.355..539C. doi:10.1038/355539a0. PMID 1741031. S2CID 4257029.
  4. ^ Rafael Lemaitre & Darryl L. Felder (2011). "A new genus of Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) for a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific and Pagurus longimanus Wass, 1963 from the tropical western Atlantic" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3125: 39–50.

External links

  • Media related to Paguridae at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Paguridae at WikispeciesError: "Q1886277" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.