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| Pylochelidae Temporal range:
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| Pylocheles miersii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Superfamily: | Paguroidea |
| Family: | Pylochelidae Bate, 1888 [1] |
| Type genus | |
| Pylocheles A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Pomatochelidae T. R. R. Stebbing, 1914 | |
The Pylochelidae are a family of hermit crabs. Its members are commonly called the 'symmetrical hermit crabs'.[2] They live in all the world's oceans, except the Arctic and the Antarctic,[2] at depths of 2,000 m (6,600 ft).[3] Due to their cryptic nature and relative scarcity, only around 60 specimens had been collected before 1987, when a monograph was published detailing a further 400.[4]
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- ^ "Pylochelidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
- ^ a b P. McLaughlin; S. Ahyong & J. K. Lowry (October 2, 2002). "Pylochelidae Bate, 1888". Anomura: Families. Australian Museum. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014. Retrieved January 16, 2010.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Forestwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Patsy A. McLaughlin & Rafael Lemaitre (2009). "A new classification for the Pylochelidae (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) and descriptions of new taxa" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 20: 159–231.