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Pestarella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Malacostraca

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Decapoda

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Family
  
Callianassidae

Rank
  
Genus

Pestarella wwwnaturamediterraneocomPublicdata8stefano20

Similar
  
Pestarella tyrrhena, Decapoda, Callianassa, Callianassidae, Axiidea

Pestarella tyrrhena dans l aquarium des an mones aquacaux


Pestarella is a genus of thalassinidean crustacean erected in 2003 from former members of the genus Callianassa. It is distinguished from Callianassa by the rounded, rather than squarish telson, and by the absence of the first two pleopods in males. The genus contains the following species:

Contents

  • Pestarella candida (Olivi, 1792)
  • Pestarella convexa (de Saint Laurent & Le Loeuff, 1979)
  • Pestarella rotundicaudata (Stebbing, 1902)
  • Pestarella tyrrhena (Petagna, 1792)
  • Pestarella whitei (Sakai, 1999)
  • Burrow structure burrowing and feeding behaviour of corallianassa longiventris and pestarella tyrr


    References

    Pestarella Wikipedia