Species list, Checklist of Superfamily Paguroidea (Hermit crabs) for Tunapuna-Piarco (Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago)

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Checklist for Superfamily Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 (Hermit crabs)
and region Tunapuna-Piarco (Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago)

Class	Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 Higher Crustaceans, Malacostracans	21 34 42	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892	21 34 42	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Eucarida Calman, 1904	15 26 33	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Decapoda Latreille, 1802 Crabs, Crayfishes, Decapod, Decapods, Lobsters, Prawns	15 26 33	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963	13 21 27	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Anomura MacLeay, 1838 Hermit crabs, Hermit Crabs and Mole Crabs, Mud shrimps	2 2 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Paguroidea Latreille, 1802 Hermit crabs	2 2 2	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Tunapuna-Piarco
2 Families width 2 Species

Coenobitidae Dana, 1851	Land hermit crabs	1	Species	Taxom
Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892	Left-handed hermit crabs	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Tunapuna-Piarco
2 Genera with 2 Species

Coenobita Latreille, 1787		1	Species	Taxom
Petrochirus Stimpson, 1758		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Tunapuna-Piarco
2 Species

Coenobita clypeatus Fabricius, 1787	Caribbean hermit crab
Petrochirus diogenes Linnaeus, 1758	Giant hermit

Subnodes of Paguroidea with occurrences in Tunapuna-Piarco

Family	Coenobitidae Dana, 1851 Land hermit crabs	1 1	Genus Species	Taxom
Family	Diogenidae Ortmann, 1892 Left-handed hermit crabs, Lefthanded 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