Biology:Gemmotheres

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Short description: Genus of crabs


Gemmotheres
Gemmotheres chamae (10.1590-2358-2936e2020005) Figure 1.jpg
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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". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 17: 1–286. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20110606061453/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s17/s17rbz.pdf. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Gemmotheres chamae (M. H. Roberts, 1975)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=621735. Retrieved June 16, 2011. 
  3. "Gemmotheres chamae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=621735. 
  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. 
  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. 

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