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Paromola

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Genus of crabs
Paromola
Temporal range: 0.012–Recent Ma
Paromola cuvieri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Homolidae
Genus: Paromola
Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891

Paromola is a genus of crabs within the family Homolidae.[1] [2] Members of the Homolidae genus have their fifth pereiopods (last pair of walking legs) in a sub-dorsal position, which allows them to hold objects, such as sponges, black corals and gorgonians, over the rear half of the carapace, in a possible defence mechanism against predators.[3]

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