Parapylocheles

Parapylocheles
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Pylochelidae
Genus: Parapylocheles
Alcock, 1901
Species:
P. scorpio
Binomial name
Parapylocheles scorpio
(Alcock, 1894)

Parapylocheles scorpio is a species of hermit crab in the family Pylochelidae. It lives at depths from 200 to 925 meters in the Indo-West Pacific, in Indonesia and the Philippines, although it may live in water as shallow as 100 meters in wood fragments, tusk shells, and pieces of bamboo. It is the only member of the genus Parapylocheles.

References

  1. ↑ Alcock, A. (1894). "XXV.— Natural history notes from H.M. Indian marine survey steamer 'Investigator,' Commander R.F. Hoskyn, R.N., Commanding .—Series II., No. 1. On the results of deep-sea dredging during the season 1890–91 ( continued )". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 13 (75): 225–245. doi:10.1080/00222939408677694.
  2. ↑ "WoRMS – World Register of Marine Species – Parapylocheles scorpio (Alcock, 1894)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  3. ↑ "Parapylocheles scorpio". www.sealifebase.ca. Retrieved 11 March 2019.