Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Paguroidea (Hermit crabs) for Galle (Southern Province, Sri Lanka)

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Checklist for Superfamily Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 (Hermit crabs)
and region Galle (Southern Province, Sri Lanka)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	37 75 95	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	37 75 95	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	29 66 87	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	29 66 87	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	28 65 86	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	4 5 7	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 Hermit crabs	3 4 6	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Galle
3 Families width 6 Species

Genera for Galle
4 Genera with 6 Species

Species list for Galle
6 Species

Calcinus elegans H. Milne Edw..., 1836	Electric Blue Hermit Crab
Coenobita perlatus Milne-Edwards, 1829	Strawberry hermit crab
Coenobita rugosus H. Milne-Edw..., 1837	Ruggie Hermit Crab
Dardanus deformis H. Milne Edw..., 1836	Pale anemone hermit
Pagurus bernhardus Linnaeus, 1758	Common hermit crab
Pagurus deformis (H. Milne Edw..., 1836)	⇒ Dardanus deformis H. Milne Edw..., 1836

Subnodes of Paguroidea with occurrences in Galle

Family	Coenobitidae Dana, 1851 Land hermit crabs	1 2	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892 Left-handed hermit crabs, Lefthanded hermit crabs	2 2	Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Paguridae Latreille, 1802 Hermit Crabs, Right-handed hermit crabs	1 2	Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

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