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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Anomura
Superfamilia: Paguroidea

Familia: Parapaguridae
Genera (10): BivalvopagurusOncopagurusParagiopagurusParapagurus – Probeebei – Strobopagurus – Sympagurus – Tsunogaipagurus – Tylaspis – Typhlopagurus

[source: WoRMS]
Name

Parapaguridae Smith, 1882

Vernacular names
日本語: オキヤドカリ科
中文: 拟寄居蟹科

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

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.
Poore, Gary C. B. (2004). Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide To Identification. Csiro Publishing. p. 279. ISBN 9780643069060.
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. Archived from the original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
Patsy McLaughlin & Michael Türkay (2011). Lemaitre R, McLaughlin P (eds.). "Parapaguridae". World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved November 16, 2012.

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