Xylopaguridae
| Xylopaguridae Temporal range: Upper Albian–recent,
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| Xylopagurus rectus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Superfamily: | Paguroidea |
| Family: | Xylopaguridae Gašparič, Fraaije, Robin & de Angeli, 2016 |
| Type genus | |
| Xylopagurus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
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Xylopaguridae are a family of hermit crabs of the order Decapoda. It was erected in 2016 to accommodate one new genus, Prexylopagurus, and three existing genera that had previously been placed in Paguridae. They occur in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.
Some sources do not recognize Xylopaguridae and list the species and genera that were transferred to it under their original family, Paguridae.