Claim: Hermit crabs are animals.
Evidence: Hermit crabs are decapod crustaceans of the superfamily Paguroidea.
Crustaceans -LRB- Crustacea -LSB- krʌˈsteɪʃə -RSB- -RRB- form a large , diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs , lobsters , crayfish , shrimp , krill , woodlice and barnacles.
The crustacean group is usually treated as a subphylum , and thanks to recent molecular studies it is now well accepted that the crustacean group is paraphyletic , and comprises all animals in the Pancrustacea clade other than hexapods.