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

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.
"Gemmotheres chamae (M. H. Roberts, 1975)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 16, 2011.
"Gemmotheres chamae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
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.
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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[Ng-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.

[ITIS-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.