Parapylocheles

Parapylocheles
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Pylochelidae
Genus: Parapylocheles
Alcock, 1901
Species:
P. scorpio
Binomial name
Parapylocheles scorpio
(Alcock, 1894)[1]

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.

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