Parapinnixa affinis

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	ARTHROPODA	CRUSTACEA	DECAPODA	PINNOTHERIDAE

Scientific Name:

Parapinnixa affinis

Species Authority:

Holmes, 1900

Common Name/s:

English

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California Bay Pea Crab, Californian Bay Pea Crab

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Endangered A1c ver 2.3

Year Published:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

Inland Water Crustacean Specialist Group

Reviewer/s:

Contributor/s:

History:

1994	–	Insufficiently Known (Groombridge 1994)
1990	–	Insufficiently Known (IUCN 1990)
1988	–	Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1988)
1986	–	Insufficiently Known (IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre 1986)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Supposedly confined to the Pacific waters off the coast of California, but there is a questionable record of P. affinis from Siberia (Kobjakova 1967).
Countries:	Native: United States (California)
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Pacific – eastern central
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Lives as a symbiont, it inhabits the tubes and burrows of marine polychaete worms.
Systems:	Marine

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Kobjakova, Z. I. 1967. Decapoda (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Possjet Bay (the Sea of Japan). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas of the USSR 5(13): 243.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

Kobjakova, Z. I. 1967. Decapoda (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Possjet Bay (the Sea of Japan). Explorations of the Fauna of the Seas of the USSR 5(13): 243.

Citation:	Inland Water Crustacean Specialist Group 1996. Parapinnixa affinis. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 May 2013.
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