Family Paguridae Latreille 1802 (hermit crab)

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Paguridae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467

Parent taxon: Paguroidea according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023

Sister taxa: Annuntidiogenidae, Calcinidae, Coenobitidae, Diogenidae, Parapaguridae, Pilgrimchelidae, Probeebeidae, Pylochelidae, Pylojacquesidae, Schobertellidae, Xylopaguridae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Mexico (1), Panama (1), United States (11: Califormia, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusets, North Carolina, Texas, Virgin Islands, Washington)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)

• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Italy (3), Japan (1)

• Neogene of Poland (2)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Fiji (1), Hungary (7), Malaysia (4), Malta (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), United States (4: Mississippi, Washington)

• Eocene of Denmark (1), Egypt (1), Italy (3), Spain (2), Tonga (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Paleogene of Hungary (1)

• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of France (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alabama, Delaware, New Jersey, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (9), Germany (2), Romania (1), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (9)

Total: 94 collections including 126 occurrences

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