Brachyuran crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the remote oceanic Archipelago Trindade and Martin Vaz, South Atlantic Ocean Author In, First Published text Zootaxa 2022 2022-06-02 5146 1 129 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5146.1.1 1175­5334 52C3E5E3-80B6-49DB-BC9C-194560D491F7 Genus Paractaea Guinot, 1969 Type species. Xantho rufopunctatus H. Milne Edwards, 1834 [ Type locality: Mauritius Island ] Remarks. Guinot (1969) and Serène (1984) recognized 10 forms in total within Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) . Most of the forms recognized by Guinot and Serène were later considered unavailable names by Ng et al. (2008) under the provisions of Article 10.2 of the ICZN (1999) , with the exception of P. nodosa ( Stimpson, 1860 ) considered a full species. The name rufopunctata africana introduced by Guinot (1969) became available only through Guinot (1976) . Also of interest is that P. rufopunctata africana Guinot, 1976 , has been granted full specific status by Mendoza et al . (2014) , namely P. africana Guinot, 1976 . Various authors were in error in applying (without stating their reasons) the name Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) , a species originally described from Mauritius , to the western Atlantic species P. nodosa ( Stimpson, 1860 ) , originally described from Tortugas , Florida (e.g. Felder et al. 2009 ; Thoma et al. 2014 ; Mantelatto et al. 2020 ).