''Parapinnixa'' is a genus of
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting "tail" (abdomen) ( el, βραχύς , translit=brachys = short, / = tail), usually hidden entirely under the thorax. They live in all the ...
s in the family
Parapinnixidae. Originally described by
Samuel Jackson Holmes
Samuel Jackson Holmes (March 7, 1868 – March 5, 1964California Death Records. – California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research.) was an American zoologist and eugenicist. He was a professor at the Universit ...
as ''Pseudopinnixa'', he published the
replacement name
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''Parapinnixa'' the following year, after learning of the
senior homonym
In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon.
The rule in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is that the first such name to be published is the se ...
''
Pseudopinnixa'' Ortmann, 1894.
The genus contains the following species:
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Parapinnixa affinis''
Holmes, 1900 – California Bay pea crab
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Parapinnixa beaufortensis''
Rathbun, 1918
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Parapinnixa bouvieri''
Rathbun, 1918
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Parapinnixa cortesi''
Thoma, Heard & Vargas, 2005
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Parapinnixa cubana''
Campos, 1994
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Parapinnixa glasselli''
Garth, 1939
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Parapinnixa hendersoni''
Rathbun, 1918
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Parapinnixa magdalenensis''
Werding & Müller, 1990
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Parapinnixa nitida''
(Lockington, 1876)
References
Pinnotheroidea
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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