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Pachycheles biocellatus is exclusively widespread in the eastern tropical Pacific, but the main focus of occurrence seems to be the Mexican coast.
The species name "biocellatus" comes from the words "bi" for "two" and "cellatus" -> ocellus ("a little eye") for "little eye" of this porcelain crayfish, which refers to the two small bright eye spots at the lower end of the carapace.
The reddish coloration of the animal is particularly striking.
Pachycheles biocellatus filters micoplankton from the water with its two feathery, larger mouthparts.
Synonyms:
Petrolisthes (Pisosoma) biocellatus Lockington, 1878
Petrolisthes gibbosicarpus Lockington, 1878
Pisosoma aphrodita Boone, 1932
Literature reference:
Published as part of Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo & Anker, Arthur, 2021
An annotated and illustrated checklist of the porcelain crabs of Panama (Decapoda: Anomura), pp.
1-154 in Zootaxa 5045 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
http://zenodo.org/record/5532178
The species name "biocellatus" comes from the words "bi" for "two" and "cellatus" -> ocellus ("a little eye") for "little eye" of this porcelain crayfish, which refers to the two small bright eye spots at the lower end of the carapace.
The reddish coloration of the animal is particularly striking.
Pachycheles biocellatus filters micoplankton from the water with its two feathery, larger mouthparts.
Synonyms:
Petrolisthes (Pisosoma) biocellatus Lockington, 1878
Petrolisthes gibbosicarpus Lockington, 1878
Pisosoma aphrodita Boone, 1932
Literature reference:
Published as part of Ferreira, Luciane Augusto De Azevedo & Anker, Arthur, 2021
An annotated and illustrated checklist of the porcelain crabs of Panama (Decapoda: Anomura), pp.
1-154 in Zootaxa 5045 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5045.1.1
http://zenodo.org/record/5532178
