''Paromola'' is a genus of

crab Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura (meaning "short tailed" in Greek language, Greek), which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen#Arthropoda, abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the Thorax (arthropo ...

s within the family

Homolidae The family Homolidae, known as carrier crabs or porter crabs, contains 14 genera of marine crabs. They mostly live on the continental slope and continental shelf, and are rarely encountered. Members of the Homolidae have their fifth pereiopod ...

. 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 Sponges or sea sponges are primarily marine invertebrates of the animal phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), a basal clade and a sister taxon of the diploblasts. They are sessile filter feeders that are bound to the seabed, and ar ...

, black corals and

gorgonians Alcyonacea is the old scientific Order (biology), order name for the informal group known as "soft corals". It is now an unaccepted name for Class (biology), class Octocorallia. It became deprecated . The following text should be considered a hi ...

, over the rear half of the

carapace A carapace is a dorsal (upper) section of the exoskeleton or shell in a number of animal groups, including arthropods, such as crustaceans and arachnids, as well as vertebrates, such as turtles and tortoises. In turtles and tortoises, the unde ...

, in a possible defence mechanism against

predators Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

Species

* '' Paromola bathyalis'' * '' Paromola crosnieri'' * '' Paromola cuvieri'' * '' Paromola japonica'' * '' Paromola macrochira'' * '' Paromola rathbuni'' * † ''

Paromola vetula ''Paromola'' is a genus of crabs within the family Homolidae. Members of the Homolidae genus have their fifth Pereiopod, pereiopods (last pair of walking legs) in a sub-dorsal position, which allows them to hold objects, such as Sponge, sponges, ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4483393 Dromiacea Decapod genera