Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Paguroidea (Hermit crabs) for Nigeria (West Africa)

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Checklist for Superfamily Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 (Hermit crabs)
and region Nigeria (West Africa)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	102 206 318	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	102 206 318	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	65 134 232	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	64 133 231	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	59 123 214	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	8 13 19	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 Hermit crabs	3 5 8	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Nigeria
3 Families width 8 Species and 1 Subspecies

Genera for Nigeria
5 Genera with 8 Species

Species list for Nigeria
8 Species and 1 Subspecies

Clibanarius africanus Aurivillus, 1898
Clibanarius clibanarius Herbst, 1791
Clibanarius cooki Rathbun, 1900	Largeflower tickclover
Diogenes ovatus Miers, 1881	Newberry's twinpod
Diogenes pugilator cristata Balss, 1921
Pagurus triangularis Chevreux & B..., 1892
Parapagurus alaminos Lemaitre, 1986	Chinese bottle tree
Petrochirus pustulatus H. Milne Edw..., 1848

Subnodes of Paguroidea with occurrences in Nigeria

Family	Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892 Left-handed hermit crabs, Lefthanded hermit crabs	3 6	Genera Species	Taxom
Family	Paguridae Latreille, 1802 Hermit Crabs, Right-handed hermit crabs	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Parapaguridae S. I. Smith, 1882 Deepwater hermit crabs	1 1	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