Gemmotheres | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Pinnotheridae |
Genus: | Gemmotheres Campos, 1996 [1] |
Species: | G. chamae |
Binomial name | |
Gemmotheres chamae (M. H. Roberts, 1975) [2] | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Pinnotheres chamaeM. 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]