Gemmotheres

Gemmotheres
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Pinnotheridae
Genus: Gemmotheres
Campos, 1996 [1]
Species: G. chamae
Binomial name
Gemmotheres chamae
(M. H. Roberts, 1975) [2]
Synonyms [2]

Pinnotheres chamae M. H. Roberts, 1975

Gemmotheres also known as the jewel-box pea crab,[3] is a monotypic genus of pea crab, which was erected in 1996 to hold the species Gemmotheres chamae (formerly Pinnotheres chamae).[4] The species lives as a commensal of the corrugate jewelbox, Chama congregata.[5]

References

  1. Peter K. L. Ng, Danièle Guinot & Peter J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
  2. 1 2 "Gemmotheres chamae (M. H. Roberts, 1975)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
  3. "Gemmotheres chamae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  4. Ernesto Campos (1996). "Partial revision of pinnotherid crab genera with a two-segmented palp on the third maxilliped (Decapoda: Brachyura)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 16 (3): 556–563. doi:10.2307/1548747. JSTOR 1548747.
  5. Morris H. Roberts, Jr. (1975). "Description of a pea crab, Pinnotheres chamae, sp. nov. from the jewel box, Chama congregata". Chesapeake Science. 16 (4): 238–241. doi:10.2307/1350942. JSTOR 1350942.


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