Pachycheles

Pachycheles
Male Pachycheles rudis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Anomura
Family:	Porcellanidae
Genus:	Pachycheles Stimpson, 1858

Pachycheles is a genus of porcelain crabs in the family Porcellanidae. There are more than 40 described species in Pachycheles.

Species

These 47 species belong to the genus Pachycheles:

• Pachycheles ackieianus A.Milne Edwards
• Pachycheles ackleianus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
• Pachycheles attaragos Harvey & de Santo, 1997
• Pachycheles barbatus A.Milne-Edwards, 1878
• Pachycheles bellus (Osorio, 1887)
• Pachycheles biocellatus (Lockington, 1878)
• Pachycheles calculosus Haig, 1960
• Pachycheles chacei Haig, 1956
• Pachycheles chubutensis Boschi, 1963
• Pachycheles crassus (A.Milne-Edwards, 1869)
• Pachycheles crinimanus Haig, 1960
• Pachycheles cristobalensis Gore, 1970
• Pachycheles dorsosulcatus Beschin & al., 2007
• Pachycheles granti Haig, 1965
• Pachycheles greeleyi (Rathbun, 1900)
• Pachycheles grossimanus (Guérin, 1835)
• Pachycheles hertwigi Balss, 1913
• Pachycheles holosericus Schmitt, 1921
• Pachycheles johnsoni Haig, 1965
• Pachycheles laevidactylus Ortmann, 1892
• Pachycheles latus Rathbun, 1918
• Pachycheles marcortezensis Glassell, 1936
• Pachycheles meloi Ferreira & Tavares, 2017
• Pachycheles monilifer (Dana, 1852)
• Pachycheles natalensis (Krauss, 1843)
• Pachycheles palpebrosus Glassell
• Pachycheles panamensis Faxon, 1893
• Pachycheles pectinicarpus Stimpson, 1858
• Pachycheles pilosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
• Pachycheles pisoides (C. Heller, 1865)
• Pachycheles pubescens Holmes, 1900
• Pachycheles riisei (Stimpson, 1858)
• Pachycheles rudis Stimpson, 1859 (thickclaw porcelain crab)
• Pachycheles rugimanus A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
• Pachycheles sahariensis Monod, 1933
• Pachycheles serratus (Benedict, 1901)
• Pachycheles setiferous Yang, 1996
• Pachycheles setimanus (Lockington, 1878)
• Pachycheles spinidactylus Haig, 1957
• Pachycheles stevensii Stimpson, 1858
• Pachycheles subsetosus Haig, 1960
• Pachycheles susanae Gore & Abele, 1974
• Pachycheles tomentosus Henderson, 1893
• Pachycheles trichotus Haig, 1960
• Pachycheles tuerkayi Werding & Hiller, 2017
• Pachycheles velerae Haig, 1960
• Pachycheles vicarius Nobili, 1901

Further reading

• Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 96–157. ISSN 0006-324X.