Parapylocheles | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Anomura |
Family: | Pylochelidae |
Genus: | Parapylocheles Alcock, 1901 |
Species: | P. scorpio
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Binomial name | |
Parapylocheles scorpio (Alcock, 1894)[1]
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Parapylocheles scorpio is a species of hermit crab in the family Pylochelidae.[2] 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.[3] It is the only member of the genus Parapylocheles.