Parapinnixa

Parapinnixa is a genus of crabs in the family Parapinnixidae. Originally described by Samuel Jackson Holmes as Pseudopinnixa, he published the replacement name Parapinnixa the following year, after learning of the senior homonym Pseudopinnixa Ortmann, 1894.

Parapinnixa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Parapinnixidae
Genus: Parapinnixa
Holmes, 1895
Synonyms
  • Pseudopinnixa Holmes, 1894

The genus contains the following species:[1][2]

  • Parapinnixa affinis Holmes, 1900 – California Bay pea crab
  • Parapinnixa beaufortensis Rathbun, 1918
  • Parapinnixa bouvieri Rathbun, 1918
  • Parapinnixa cortesi Thoma, Heard & Vargas, 2005
  • Parapinnixa cubana Campos, 1994
  • Parapinnixa glasselli Garth, 1939
  • Parapinnixa hendersoni Rathbun, 1918
  • Parapinnixa magdalenensis Werding & Müller, 1990
  • Parapinnixa nitida (Lockington, 1876)

References
  1. Peter K. L. Ng; Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  2. P. Davie (December 1, 2010). "Parapinnixa Holmes, 1895". World Register of Marine Species.


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