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Diogenidae
Diogenes pugilator
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Superfamily: Paguroidea
Family: Diogenidae
Ortmann, 1892 [1]

The Diogenidae are a family of hermit crabs, sometimes known as "left-handed hermit crabs" because in contrast to most other hermit crabs, its left chela (claw) is enlarged instead of the right. It comprises 429 extant species,[2] and a further 47 extinct species,[1] making it the second-largest family of marine hermit crabs, after the Paguridae.[3]

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