Paraetisus

{{Short description|Genus of crabs}}

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| genus = Paraetisus

| parent_authority = Ward, 1933

| species = globulus

| authority = Ward, 1933

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Paraetisus globulus is a species of crab in the family Xanthidae, the only species in the genus Paraetisus.{{cite journal |last1=Ng |first1=Peter K. L. |last2=Guinot |first2=Danièle |last3=Davie |first3=Peter J. F. |date=January 2008 |title=Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world |url=https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/app/uploads/2017/04/s17rbz.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |volume=17 |pages=1–286 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf |archive-date=6 June 2011 |access-date=8 June 2011 |via=the National University of Singapore}}{{cite journal |journal=Raffles Bulletin of Zoology |year=2009 |volume=Suppl. 21 |pages=1–109 |title=A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans |author1=Sammy De Grave |author2=N. Dean Pentcheff |author3=Shane T. Ahyong |url=http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s21/s21rbz1-109.pdf |display-authors=etal}} It was described in 1933 by Charles Melbourne Ward.{{cite journal |last=Ward |first=Melbourne |author-link=Charles Melbourne Ward |date=August 1933 |title=New genera and species of marine Decapod Brachyura from the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland |journal=Australian Zoologist |volume=7 |issue=5 |pages=377–394 |url=https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12431/12431.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603195026/https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/12431/12431.pdf |archive-date=3 June 2024 |url-status=live |via=the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County}}{{cite WoRMS|last=Ahyong|first=Shane T.|author-link=Shane T. Ahyong|year=2021|title=Paraetisus Ward, 1933|id=204045|access-date=29 September 2024}}