Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Paguroidea (Hermit crabs) for Namibia (Southern Africa)

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Checklist for Superfamily Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 (Hermit crabs)
and region Namibia (Southern Africa)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	156 354 515	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	155 353 513	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	60 129 209	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	59 122 196	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	53 105 161	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	7 12 23	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 Hermit crabs	3 6 9	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Namibia
3 Families width 9 Species

Genera for Namibia
6 Genera with 9 Species

Species list for Namibia
9 Species

Birgus latro Linnaeus, 1767	Coconut Crab
Dardanus arrosor Herbst, 1796	Striated Hermit Crab
Paguristes gamianus H. Milne-Edw..., 1836	Pink hermit crab
Paragiopagurus hobbiti Macpherson, 1983
Parapagurus andreui Macpherson, 1984
Parapagurus bouvieri Stebbing, 1910	Hairy-clawed hermit crab
Parapagurus macrocerus Forest, 1955
Parapagurus pilosimanus Smith, 1879
Sympagurus dimorphus Studer, 1883	Cloaked hermit crab

Subnodes of Paguroidea with occurrences in Namibia

Family	Coenobitidae Dana, 1851 Land hermit crabs	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892 Left-handed hermit crabs, Lefthanded hermit crabs	2 2	Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Parapaguridae S. I. Smith, 1882 Deepwater hermit crabs	3 6	Genera 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