Paguridea

Paguridea

[‚pag·yə′rid·ē·ə]
(invertebrate zoology)
A group of anomuran decapod crustaceans in which the abdomen is nearly always asymmetrical, being either soft and twisted or bent under the thorax.
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Two new hermit crabs (crustacea: decapoda: Paguridea) from the Caribean sea.
Biologia y patrones de distribucion de los cangrejos ermitanos (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridea) en el mar Caribe colombiano.
Distribucion de cangrejos ermitanos (Anomura: Paguroidea) en el mar Caribe Colombiano
Hermit crab shells as a limiting resource (Decapoda, Paguridea).
Notas sobre Isocheles sawayai (Forest, 1967) (Decapoda, Paguridea).
Shell occupation by the endemic western Atlantic hermit crab Isocheles sawayai (Diogenidae) from Caraguatatuba, Brazil/Ocupacao de conchas pelo ermitao endemico do Atlantico ocidental Isocheles sawayai (Diogenidae) em Caraguatatuba, Brasil
Taphonomic significance of hermit crabs (Anomura; Paguridea): Epifaunal hermit crab-infaunal gastropod example.
Molluscan shell condition after eight years on the sea floor--taphonomy in the Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas
Functional morphology of the mouthparts and gastric mill in the hermit crabs Clibanarius taenitua (Milne Edwards), Clibanarius virescens (Krauss), Paguristes squamousus McCulloch and Dardanus setifer (Milne-Edwards) (Anomura: Paguridea).
Mechanosensory neurons with bend- and osmo-sensitivity in mouthpart setae from the spiny lobster Panulirus argus
0.1 0.0 Caridea unidentified 0.1 0.0 Natantia unidentified 0.9 0.4 Total Reptantia# 31.9# 17.0# Anomura unidentified 0.1 0.1 Scyllaridae Scyllarus arctus 4.0 0.8 Diogenidae 1.1 1.7 Paguridea 0.3 0.3 Galatheidae Galathea sp.
Diets of thornback ray (Raja clavata) and tope shark (Galeorhinus galeus) in the bottom longline fishery of the Azores, northeastern Atlantic
Crustacea, decapoda, paguridea. Stockholm, Sweden: Scandinavian University Press.
Shell-selection behavior of the hermit crab Pagurus granosimanus in relation to isolation, competition, and predation
Seasonality in the reproduction of the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus Say, 1817 (Decapoda, Paguridea).
Life-history variation among three temperate hermit crabs: the importance of size in reproductive strategies
Adaptations of a species of hermit crab (Decapoda, Paguridea) inhabiting sessile worm tubes.
Life history patterns of Discorsopagurus schmitti, a hermit crab inhabiting polychaete tubes

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