Pacific Ocean, with a reappraisal of the subfamily Pinnotherinae de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)
Author
Campos, Ernesto
text
Zootaxa
2009
2022
29
44
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.186086
34491f5d-e23b-40d7-9d4c-41714503582e
1175-5326
186086
Enigmatheres
new genus
(
Fig. 1
A–E)
Type
species
Fabia canfieldi
Rathbun, 1918
, by present designation and monotypy.
Diagnosis
. MXP3 with ischium and merus indistinguishably fused, inner and outer margin gently curved, lacking obtuse angle; carpus larger than conical propodus; small, narrow dactylus inserted on middle third of medioventral margin of propodus. Relative length of WL 2> 3> 1> 4; WL2 asymmetrical, right one third longer than left; dactyli short, slender and conical, slightly curved up to hooked, hard tip, except right dactylus of WL2 that is longer than other dactili and straight to the tip.
Etymology
. From the Latin
enigma
(= mystery) to recognize that knowledge on the distribution and host species are still incomplete after more than nine decades since the discovery of the
type
species. Gender feminine.