''Pachygrapsus'' is a genus of small shore
crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura (meaning "short tailed" in Greek language, Greek), which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen#Arthropoda, abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the Thorax (arthropo ...
s. Recent genetic data suggest this genus to be possibly
polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...
.
It comprises the following species:
*''
Pachygrapsus corrugatus''
(von Martens Von Martens is the surname of:
* Eduard von Martens (1831–1904), German zoologist, son of Georg Matthias von Martens
* Friedrich Fromhold von Martens (1845–1909), Russian diplomat and jurist
* Georg Friedrich von Martens (1756–1821), German ...
, 1872)
*''
Pachygrapsus crassipes''
Randall, 1840
*''
Pachygrapsus fakaravensis''
Rathbun, 1907
*''
Pachygrapsus gracilis''
( Saussure, 1858)
*''
Pachygrapsus laevimanus''
Stimpson, 1858
*''
Pachygrapsus loveridgei''
Chace, 1966
*''
Pachygrapsus marmoratus''
(Fabricius Fabricius (, ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*people from the Ancient Roman Fabricia gens, gens Fabricia:
**Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome
* Johann Goldsmid (1587–1616), known by his ...
, 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
Grapsidae
Decapod genera
Taxa named by John Witt Randall
{{Grapsoidea-stub