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deepwater hermit crabs
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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 and Tylaspis, do not inhabit shells. The following genera are included:

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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

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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.