Pestarella

Pestarella is a genus of thalassinidean crustacean erected in 2003 from former members of the genus Callianassa.[1] It is distinguished from Callianassa by the rounded, rather than squarish telson, and by the absence of the first two pleopods in males.[1] The genus contains the following species:[2]

  • Pestarella candida (Olivi, 1792)
  • Pestarella convexa (de Saint Laurent & Le Loeuff, 1979)
  • Pestarella rotundicaudata (Stebbing, 1902)
  • Pestarella tyrrhena (Petagna, 1792)
  • Pestarella whitei (Sakai, 1999)

Pestarella
Pestarella tyrrhena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Family:
Callianassidae
Genus:
Pestarella

Ngoc-Ho, 2003

References
  1. Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2003). "European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 25 (3): 439–555. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-11-19.
  2. Gary Poore (2010). "Pestarella Ngoc-Ho, 2003". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 11, 2010.


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