Eupagurus
EUPAGRUS
CLASSIFICATION
PHYLUM: ARTHROPODA (Jointed appendages).
SUB-PHYLUM: CRUSTACEA (Biramous appendages
CLASS: MALACO STRACA (carapace covers head & thorax).
Comment:
• Commonly known as "Hermit crab ".
•It is a peculiar crustacean having extreme modifications in order to adjust in the coils of molluscan shells.
• Body is reduced in varying degrees and asymmetrical but shows usual divisions into head thorax & abdomen.
•Carapace reduced & not found at the sides with epistome. It covers head Rostrum absent.
•Head contains antennules, antennae & stalked eyes. Thoracic appendages protrude through the opening of the shell . First thoracic leg is chelate & the rest reduced.
•Seventh & eighth thoracic appendages are reduced & remain inside the mollusc shell.
•Uropods are hooked & notched in the shell.
• Distribution: cosmopolitan.
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