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How are land hermit crabs classified?

April 26, 2017Classified Crabs hermit land

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How are land hermit crabs classified?

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Phylum Arthropoda: Animals with specialized body segments, hardened exoskeltons, and joined appendages. Subphylum Diantennata: Arthropods with a pair of mandbiles that flank the mouth and at least one set of antennae. Class Crustacea: Diantennata with two pairs of antennae and double branched (biramous) appendages. Order Decapoda: Crustacea with five pairs of legs Infraorder Anomura: Decapoda, with reduced fifth pair of thoracic legs and the folded up bases above the bases of the fourth pairs of legs. Family Coenobitidae: Land (Terrestrial) hermit crabs.