Mary Jane Rathbun was an American zoologist who specialized in crustaceans. She worked at the Smithsonian Institution, often unaided, from 1884 until her death. She described more than a thousand new species and subspecies and many higher taxa.
Xanthidae is a family of crabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs. Xanthid crabs are often brightly coloured and are highly poisonous, containing toxins which are not destroyed by cooking and for which no antidote is known. The toxins are similar to the tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin produced by puffer fish, and may be produced by bacteria in the genus Vibrio living in symbiosis with the crabs, mostly V. alginolyticus and V. parahaemolyticus.
Mary Jane Rathbun, popularly known as Brownie Mary, was an American medical cannabis rights activist. As a hospital volunteer at San Francisco General Hospital, she became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDS patients. Along with activist Dennis Peron, Rathbun lobbied for the legalization of cannabis for medical use, and she helped pass San Francisco Proposition P (1991) and California Proposition 215 (1996) to achieve those goals. She also contributed to the establishment of the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club, the first medical cannabis dispensary in the United States.
Parthenopidae is a family of crabs, placed in its own superfamily, Parthenopoidea. It comprises nearly 40 genera, divided into two subfamilies, with three genera incertae sedis:
Palaemon is a genus of caridean shrimp of the family Palaemonidae. The conventional circumscription of the genus Palaemon is probably paraphyletic. Molecular data suggest that Palaemonetes, as well as the genera Exopalaemon and Couteriella, are nested within Palaemon. Phylogenetic affinities in these groups correspond better with geographical origin than conventional genus assignments.
Pseudothelphusidae is a family of freshwater crabs found chiefly in mountain streams in the Neotropics. They are believed to have originated in the Greater Antilles and then crossed to Central America via a Pliocene land bridge.
Ranina is a genus of crabs belonging to the family Raninidae.
Lebbeus is a genus of shrimp in the family Hippolytidae. It includes a species whose name was auctioned in 2009 to raise funds for conservation; Luc Longley won with a bid of A$3,600. He named the shrimp Lebbeus clarehannah. The following species are included:
Neostrengeria is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Ptychophallus is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae.
Pseudothelphusa is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Chaceus is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Hypolobocera is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, found only in the San Juan River basin which drains into the Pacific, in Colombia. The major and future threats to this species include human-induced habitat loss/degradation and water pollution.
Microthelphusa is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Moritschus is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Orthothelphusa is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Rodriguezus is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Spirothelphusa is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Tehuana is a genus of crabs in the family Pseudothelphusidae, containing the following species:
Tunicotheres is a monotypic genus of crabs in the family Pinnotheridae, and Tunicotheres moseri is the only species in the genus. This crab lives commensally in the atrial chamber of a small ascidian. It is found in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
