Tags: Crustacean.

Hermit crabs are decapod crustaceans of the superfamily Paguroidea. Most of the 1100 species possess an asymmetrical abdomen which is concealed in an empty gastropod shell carried around by the hermit crab.

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class
Malacostraca
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Pleocyemata, Anomura
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean

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