Data for selected species
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Decapoda - Brachyura - Xanthidae - Paractaea

Paractaea retusa (Nobili, 1905)


Selected Reference(s)
Actaea rufopunctata. - Holthuis, L. B., 1953a: 11. [Not Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834), cf. Guinot (1969: 256)] - French Polynesia
Paractaea retusa form hippocrepica. - Guinot, D., 1969: 256, fig. 30. - French Polynesia

Regional Data (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton)
Distribution & Ecology: Society (Moorea, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Raroia) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; ?Hard bottom; ?Coral facultative associate.

Regional Records: Actaea garretti Rathbun, 1906: 852, pl. 9, fig. 8 (Society). - Actaea rufopunctata - Holthuis, 1953: 11 (Raroia). - Morrison, 1954: 16 (Raroia). - Forest & Guinot, 1961: 79, fig. 79a-b (Tahiti) - All, not Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) = Paractaea retusa form hippocrepica nov. in Guinot (1969: 256). - Paractaea retusa form hippocrepica - Guinot, 1969: 256, fig. 30 (Tahiti, Raroia; Syn.); 1985: 451 (List). - Peyrot-Clausade, 1989: 115 (Moorea). - Paractaea retusa - Monteforte, 1984: 171, annex 1, tab. a; 1987: 9 (Moorea). - Poupin, 1996a: 43 (Checklist). - Remark: Guinot (1969: 255), when creating the new genus Paractaea, has examined the syntype of garretti from the Gilbert's islands (but not the specimen from the Society), and considers that Rathbun's species belongs to Paractaea retusa (Nobili) form garretti (Rathbun).

References : compilation of references cited in Poupin (1996, 1998, 2003) and Poupin et al. (2009) - PDF 412 Ko
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