Pestarella

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Pestarella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Infraorder: Thalassinidea Family: Callianassidae Genus: Pestarella Ngoc-Ho, 2003
Species
Pestarella candida Pestarella tyrrhena Pestarella whitei

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.

[edit] References

• Nguyen Ngoc-Ho (2003). European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda). Zoosystema 25 (3): 439–555.