Pachygrapsus

Pachygrapsus marmoratus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Grapsoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Thoracotremata Superfamilia: Grapsoidea

Familia: Grapsidae
Genus: Pachygrapsus
Species: P. corrugatus – P. crassipes – P. fakaravensis – P. gracilis – P. laevimanus – P. loveridgei – P. marmoratus – P. maurus – P. minutus – P. planifrons – P. plicatus – P. propinquus – P. socius – P. transversus

Name

Pachygrapsus Randall, 1840.

Type species: Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall, 1840, by subsequent designation Kingsley, 1880 [Opinion 712] (stated by Ng et al., 2018: 217).

Gender: masculine

Synonymy

• Pachygrapsus Randall, 1840: 126.

References

Primary references

• Randall, J.W. 1840. Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nutall and J.K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 106–147, pls. 3–7. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. 2008 Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. Full paper
• Poupin J., Davie, P.J.F. & Cexus, J.-C. 2005. A revision of the genus Pachygrapsus Randall, 1840 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura, Grapsidae), with special reference to the Southwest Pacific species. Zootaxa 1015: 1–66. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

Vernacular names

• English: shore crab
• italiano: Granchio corridore

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