Parapagurus africanus de Saint Laurent, 1972 Oncopagurus africanus is a species of marine hermit crab within the family Parapaguridae.

[1] O. africanus inhabits gastropod shells often accompanied by an anthozoan polyp at depths of 235 to 555 meters below sea level.

Its distribution covers the southeastern Atlantic Ocean from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Angola, and the southwest Indian Ocean off SE of Durban.

[2] The ocular peduncles in O. africanus are around half the length of its shield, and the antennal acicles exceed the distal margins of the corneas.

Within the Oncopagurus genus, only 3 species are found in the Atlantic Ocean, being O. bicristatus, O. gracilis, and O. africanus.