Paractaea Guinot, 1969

Castro, Peter, 2011, Catalog of the anomuran and brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura, Brachyura) of the Hawaiian Islands 2947, Zootaxa 2947 (1), pp. 1-154 : 86

Genus Paractaea Guinot, 1969

In her re-evaluation of the taxonomy of Paractaea, Guinot (1969b) applied new names, as formes, to several “varieties” of P. rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) , two of which had been referred to as “varieties” on lables left by M. Rathbun with the Hawaiian material deposited in the USNM. These names are unfortunately unavailable because they were published after 1961 ( ICZN 1999: Article 10.2; see Ng et al. 2008: 207, note 3).

The following records of “ Actaea rufopunctata ” from the Hawaiian Is. may represent one or more of the three Hawaiian “varieties” of P. rufopunctata: Rathbun 1906: 852 [H.I. material in ANSP]; Edmondson 1925: 48 [French Frigate Shoals]; 1946: 294 [H.I.]; 1962a: 257, fig. 11b [H.I.]; Titgen 1987: 108 [H.I.] (as P. rufopunctata ); DeFelice et al. 1998: 16 [Midway Is.] (as P. rufopunctata ).