Parapaguridae

Taxobox
name=Parapaguridae
regnum=Animalia
phylum=Arthropoda
subphylum=Crustacea
classis=Malacostraca
ordo=Decapoda
infraordo=Anomura
superfamilia=Paguroidea
familia=Parapaguridae
familia_authority=Smith, 1882cite book |url=http://www.nhm.org/research/publications/CrustaceaClassification.pdf |title=An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea |author=J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis |year=2001 |pages=132 pp |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County]
subdivision_ranks=Genera
subdivision=:"Bivalvopagurus":"Oncopagurus":"Paragiopagurus":"Parapagurus":"Probeebei":"Strobopagurus":"Tsunogaipagurus":"Tylaspis":"Typhlopagurus"

Parapaguridae is a family of terrestrial hermit crabs. They have gill chambers that function as lungs. [Encarta Encyclopedia 2005 DVD. Article—Hermit Crab.] Some genera, such as "Bivalvopagurus" and "Tylaspis", do not inhabit shells. [ [http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/ctz/vol67/nr02/art01 Contributions to Zoology] ]

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