{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{Automatic Taxobox | name = Pagurapseudidae | taxon = Pagurapseudidae | authority = Lang, 1970&nbsp;<ref>{{ITIS |id=91127 |taxon=Pagurapseudidae Lang, 1970 |accessdate=May 20, 2011}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies&nbsp;<ref>{{cite web |author=Gary Anderson |year=2010 |title=Pagurapseudidae |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246700 |accessdate=May 20, 2011}}</ref> | display_parents = 3 | subdivision = *Hodometricinae <small>Gutu, 1981</small> *Pagurapseudinae <small>Lang, 1970</small> }}

'''Pagurapseudidae''' is a family of crustaceans in the order Tanaidacea. Like hermit crabs, they inhabit empty gastropod shells,<ref>{{cite book |author=Geerat J. Vermeij |year=1993 |title=Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-00080-0 |chapter=Opportunistic armor: the evolution of the conchicolous habit |pages=240–255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M3pCQ6ks5PEC&pg=PA251}}</ref> but can be told apart from hermit crabs by the lack of a carapace, revealing the segmentation of the thorax, and by the greater number of legs: hermit crabs have five pairs of legs, of which the first has large claws, and the last is highly reduced, while in Pagurapseudidae, there is one pair of claws, plus six further walking legs.<ref>{{cite book |author=Gary C. B. Poore & Shane T. Ahyong |year=2004 |title=Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: a Guide to Identification |publisher=CSIRO Publishing |isbn=978-0-643-06906-0 |chapter=Anomura – hermit crabs, porcelain crabs and squat lobsters |pages=215–287 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZWnuGc0xlMC&pg=PA217}}</ref>

The family Pagurapseudidae contains the following subfamilies and genera:<ref>{{cite web |author=Gary Anderson |year=2010 |title=Hodometricinae |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246708 |accessdate=May 20, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Gary Anderson |year=2010 |title=Pagurapseudinae |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246712 |accessdate=May 20, 2011}}</ref> *Hodometricinae <small>Gutu, 1981</small> :*''Hodometrica'' <small>Miller, 1940</small> :*''Indoapseudes'' <small>Bacescu, 1976</small> :*''Parapagurapseudopsis'' <small>Brum, 1973</small> :*''Similipedia'' <small>Gutu, 1989</small> *Pagurapseudinae <small>Lang, 1970</small> :*''Macrolabrum'' <small>Bacescu, 1976</small> :*''Pagurapseudes'' <small>Whitelegge, 1901</small> :*''Pagurotanais'' <small>Bouvier, 1918</small>

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Category:Tanaidacea Category:Malacostraca families

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