Pestarella Explained

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)

Notes and References

1. Nguyen Ngoc-Ho . 2003 . European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda) . . 25 . 3 . 439–555 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061119050939/http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n3a5.pdf . 2006-11-19 .
2. Web site: Gary Poore . 2010 . Pestarella Ngoc-Ho, 2003 . . October 11, 2010.