Pachygrapsus
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  | |
| 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
    
- "Pachygrapsus Randall 1839 (crab)". Fossilworks.org.
 - 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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