Pachygrapsus is a genus of small shore crabs. Recent genetic data suggest this genus to be possibly polyphyletic.[3]
| Pachygrapsus Temporal range: Miocene–recent [1]
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| Striped shore crab, Pachygrapsus crassipes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Grapsidae |
| Subfamily: | Grapsinae |
| Genus: | Pachygrapsus Randall, 1839 [2] |
It comprises the following species:[2]
- Pachygrapsus corrugatus (von Martens, 1872)
- Pachygrapsus crassipes Randall, 1840
- Pachygrapsus fakaravensis Rathbun, 1907
- Pachygrapsus gracilis (Saussure, 1858)
- Pachygrapsus laevimanus Stimpson, 1858
- Pachygrapsus loveridgei Chace, 1966
- Pachygrapsus marmoratus (Fabricius, 1787)
- Pachygrapsus maurus (Lucas, 1846)
- Pachygrapsus minutus A. Milne-Edwards, 1873
- Pachygrapsus planifrons De Man, 1888
- Pachygrapsus plicatus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)
- Pachygrapsus propinquus De Man, 1908
- Pachygrapsus socius Stimpson, 1871
- Pachygrapsus transversus (Gibbes, 1850)
References
edit- ^ "Pachygrapsus Randall 1839 (crab)". Fossilworks.org.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Christoph D. Schubart (2011). "Reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships within Grapsidae (Crustacea: Brachyura) and comparison of trans-isthmian versus amphi-atlantic gene flow based on mtDNA". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 250 (4): 472–478. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2011.06.003.
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