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Anomura

hermit crabs

WoRMS 106671ITIS 97698key worms:106671
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2026-08-05: itis_id 97698 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Galathea squamifera

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Anomura
Photo · Erin McKittrick · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Anomura is a group of decapod crustaceans, including hermit crabs and others. Several groups such as the king crabs and porcelain crabs within the Anomura have independently undergone carcinisation, acquiring the armoured crab body plan with a concealed tail.W CalCOFI holds 437 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2020, across 2 taxa under it.R

437
observations
1,137
records
1951–2020
years
2
datasets
1
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:106671")