Right-handed hermit crabs
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Pagurus bernhardus |
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| Latreille , 1802 |
The right-handed hermit crabs (Paguridae) are a family from the order of the decapod crabs . They resemble the left-handed hermit crabs ( Diogenidae ), only the right claws are larger. They live in all of the world's oceans, from the coasts to the deep sea. Most of the over 550 species remain smaller than their left-handed relatives.
They include the common hermit crab ( Pagurus bernhardus ) from the North Atlantic, the North and Baltic Seas and Pagurus prideaux , which lives in symbiosis with the sea anemone Adamsia palliata from Norway to the Mediterranean .
Pylopagurus discoidalis lives on the Atlantic coast of North America in the empty shells of pinnipeds .
The tiny hermit crabs of the genus Paguritta have a special way of life . They live sessile in the empty tubes of calcareous tube worms between stony corals . They catch floating plankton with their feathered antennae.
Genera
- Agaricochirus McLaughlin, 1981
- Anapagrides de Saint Laurent-Dechancé, 1966
- Anapagurus Henderson, 1886
- Anisopagurus McLaughlin, 1981
- Catapaguroides A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1892
- Catapagurus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
- Discorsopagurus McLaughlin, 1974
- Elassochirus Benedict, 1892
- Enallopaguropsis McLaughlin, 1981
- Enneobranchus García Gómez, 1988
- Goreopagurus McLaughlin, 1988
- Haigia McLaughlin, 1981
- Iridopagurus de Saint Laurent-Dechancé, 1966
- Labidochirus Benedict, 1892
- Manucomplanus McLaughlin, 1981
- Micropagurus McLaughlin, 1986
- Nematopaguroides Forest & de Saint Laurent, 1968
- Nematopagurus A. Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, 1892
- Orthopagurus Stevens, 1927
- Ostraconotus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
- Pagurixus Melin, 1939
- Pagurus Fabricius, 1775
- Parapagurodes McLaughlin & Haig, 1973
- Phimochirus McLaughlin, 1981
- Propagurus McLaughlin & de Saint Laurent, 1998
- Pygmaeopagurus McLaughlin, 1986
- Pylopaguropsis Alcock, 1905
- Pylopagurus A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1891
- Rhodochirus McLaughlin, 1981
- Solenopagurus de Saint Laurent, 1968
- Tomopaguropsis Alcock, 1905
- Tomopagurus A. Milne-Edwards & Bouvier, 1893
literature
- Svein A. Fosså / Alf Jacob Nilsen: Coral reef aquarium. Volume 6, Birgit Schmettkamp Verlag, Bornheim 1998, ISBN 3-928819-18-6
- Helmut Debelius : Krebsführer , Jahr Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86132-504-7 .
