Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Brachyura > Kingdom Eubrachyura > Kingdom Heterotremata > Superfamily Xanthoidea > Family Xanthidae > Subfamily Actaeinae > Genus Paractaea

Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paractaea*	Guinot, 1969	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: nodose rubble crab

Literature

basis of record	Bouvier, E.L. (1915). Decapodes marcheurs (Reptantia) et Stomatopodes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. Paul Carie. Bull. Scient. Fr. Belg. 3 (48): 178-318.
additional source	Serene, R. (1984). Crustaces Decapodes Brachyoures de l'Ocean Indien et de la Mer Rouge. Xanthoidea: Xanthidae et Trapeziidae. Editions Orstom. Collection Faune Tropicale No. 24.
additional source	Ng, P.K.L.; Guinot, D.; Davie, P.J.F. (2008). Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of the extant Brachyuran crabs of the world. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1-286.
additional source	Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
GenBank (8 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Fransen, C. (2014). Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209046