Malacostraca - Decapoda - Porcellanidae

Full reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1918. Decapod crustaceans from the Panama region. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 103:123-184

Belongs to Pachycheles according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Luque et al. 2017 and Rathbun 1918

Sister taxa: Pachycheles cristatus, Pachycheles dorsosulcatus, Pachycheles granti, Pachycheles multituberculatus, Pachycheles riisei, Pachycheles semiornatus, Pachycheles stevensii, Pisosoma riisei

Type specimen: USNM 324264. Its type locality is USGS 4269, Port Limon, which is in a Piacenzian/Gelasian marine siliciclastic in the Moin Formation of Costa Rica.

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 4269, Port Limon

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.