Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Crustacea Superfamily Paguroidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Decapoda Higher classification Hermit crab | |
Family Pylojacquesidae
McLaughlin & Lemaitre, 2001 Similar Pylochelidae, Anomura, Hermit crab, Decapoda, Crustacean | ||
The Pylojacquesidae are a small family of hermit crabs, comprising only two species in two genera. The family was erected in 2001, after two specimens at Museum für Naturkunde at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin were recognised as being quite distinct from other described hermit crabs. The family members differ from other hermit crabs in that their mandibles are chitinous and toothed.
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Pylojacquesia colemani
Pylojacquesia colemani was described in 2001, based on two specimens discovered in the Museum für Naturkunde (natural history museum) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The specimens had been collected in 1875 by the S.M.S. Gazelle at 26°51.1′S 153°29.6′E in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Brisbane, Australia. It lives in the tubes secreted by serpulid worms of the genus Protula (Annelida: Serpulidae) in sandy areas of the continental shelf. The specific epithet commemorates Charles Oliver Coleman, curator of Crustacea at the Museum für Naturkunde.
Lemaitreopsis holmi
Lemaitreopsis holmi was described in 2007, based on a single female collected on September 20, 1986, at 22°40.39′S 167°41.39′E near the Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. The genus name Lemaitreopsis commemorates Rafael Lemaitre of the Smithsonian Institution, while the specific epithet commemorates the malacologist George P. Holm. The holotype is kept at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris.