Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Anomura (Hermit crabs) for Cape of Good Hope (Cape Peninsula)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Infraorder Anomura MacLeay, 1838 (Hermit crabs)
and region Cape of Good Hope (Cape Peninsula)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	37 56 59	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	37 56 59	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	24 37 43	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	23 35 42	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	23 35 42	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	3 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cape of Good Hope
3 Families width 4 Species

Albuneidae Stimpson, 1858	Mole crabs	1	Species	Taxom
Porcellanidae (Haworth, 1825)	Porcelain crab	2	Species	Taxom
Parapaguridae S. I. Smith, 1882	Deepwater hermit crabs	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape of Good Hope
4 Genera with 4 Species

Albunea Weber, 1758	1	Species	Taxom
Pisidia Leach, 1858	1	Species	Taxom
Porcellana Lamarck, 1858	1	Species	Taxom
Sympagurus Smith, 1883	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape of Good Hope
4 Species

Albunea carabus Linnaeus, 1758	Mole Crab
Pisidia streptocheles Stimpson, 1858
Porcellana streptocheles (Stimpson, 1858)	⇒ Pisidia streptocheles Stimpson, 1858
Sympagurus dimorphus Studer, 1883	Cloaked hermit crab

Subnodes of Anomura with occurrences in Cape of Good Hope

Superfamily	Galatheoidea Samouelle, 1819 porcelain crabs, squat lobsters	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Hippoidea Latreille, 1825 mole crabs, sand crabs	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 Hermit crabs	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Anomura at artfakta.se
Anomura at biodiversity.org.au
Anomura at dyntaxa.se
Anomura at itis.gov
Anomura at marinespecies.org