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Paguroidea 
AphiaID: 106687

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Pleocyemata (Suborder) > Anomura (Infraorder)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Superfamily
Parent Anomura
Synonymised
taxa
  Birgusoidea (unjustified superfamily)
Cancellochelloidea (unjustified superfamily)
Cheiroplatoidea (unjustified superfamily)
Pomatocheloidea (unjustified superfamily)
Pylocheloidea (unjustified superfamily)
Sources  basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Martin, J.W.; Davis, G.E. (2001). An updated classification of the recent Crustacea. Science Series, 39. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles, CA (USA). vii, 123 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: McLaughlin, Patsy A.; Komai, Tomoyuki; Lemaitre, Rafael; Listyo Rahayu, Dwi. (2010). 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. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Supplement No. 23: 5-107 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English coconut crabs  [details]
English hermit crabs  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Family Coenobitidae Dana, 1851
Family Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892
Family Paguridae Latreille, 1802
Family Parapaguridae Smith, 1882
Family Pylochelidae Bate, 1888
Family Pylojacquesidae McLaughlin & Lemaitre, 2001

Family Pomatochelidae accepted as Pylochelidae Bate, 1888
Environment marine
Links To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
To GenBank
To ITIS
Image 
Paguroidea sp.
Paguroidea sp.
added on 2010-02-18 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked

To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)  
To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106687
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
2005-05-02 12:40:44Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-09-16 12:23:50Z  checked  McLaughlin, Patsy
  
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  Citation: McLaughlin, P.; Türkay, M. (2013). Paguroidea. In: Lemaitre, R.; McLaughlin, P. (2013) World Paguroidea & Lomisoidea database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=106687 on 2013-05-24
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