Gemmotheres

Gemmotheres
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Pinnotheridae
Genus: Gemmotheres
Campos, 1996
Species:
G. chamae
Binomial name
Gemmotheres chamae
(M. H. Roberts, 1975)
Synonyms

Pinnotheres chamae M. H. Roberts, 1975

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

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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
  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. Bibcode:1996JCBio..16..556C. 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. Bibcode:1975CpkSc..16..238R. doi:10.2307/1350942. JSTOR 1350942.