Pylochelidae
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The Pylochelidae are a family of hermit crabs. Its members are commonly called the 'symmetrical hermit crabs'.[2] They live in all the world's oceans, except the Arctic and the Antarctic,[2] at depths of 2,000 m (6,600 ft).[3] Due to their cryptic nature and relative scarcity, only around 60 specimens had been collected before 1987, when a monograph was published detailing a further 400.[4]
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Pylochelidae | |
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Pylocheles miersii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Superfamily: | Paguroidea |
Family: | Pylochelidae Bate, 1888 [1] |
Type genus | |
Pylocheles A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 | |
Synonyms | |
Pomatochelidae T. R. R. Stebbing, 1914 |
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