Species
Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Pacific hairy hermit crab)
Pagurus hirsutiusculus. Photo: (c) marlin harms, some rights reserved (CC BY)
Pagurus hirsutiusculus is a species of hermit crab, commonly called the hairy hermit crab. It lives from the Bering Strait south to California and Japan, from the intertidal zone to a depth of 110 m (360 ft).
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Superorder: Eucarida (Decapods and krill)
- Order: Decapoda (Decapods)
- Suborder: Pleocyemata (Crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and allies)
- Infraorder: Anomura (Anomurans)
- Superfamily: Paguroidea (Hermit crabs)
- Family: Paguridae (Pagurid hermit crabs)
- Genus: Pagurus
- Species: Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Pacific hairy hermit crab)
- Genus: Pagurus
- Family: Paguridae (Pagurid hermit crabs)
- Superfamily: Paguroidea (Hermit crabs)
- Infraorder: Anomura (Anomurans)
- Suborder: Pleocyemata (Crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and allies)
- Order: Decapoda (Decapods)
- Superorder: Eucarida (Decapods and krill)
- Subclass: Eumalacostraca (Decapods, isopods, and allies)
- Class: Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
- Superclass: Multicrustacea (Typical crustaceans)
- Subphylum: Crustacea (Crustaceans)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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