Pestarella

Taxobox
name = "Pestarella"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Thalassinidea
familia = Callianassidae
genus = "Pestarella"
genus_authority = Ngoc-Ho, 2003
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "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.

References

*cite journal |quotes=no |author=Nguyen Ngoc-Ho |year=2003 |title=European and Mediterranean Thalassinidea (Crustacea, Decapoda) |journal=Zoosystema |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z03n3a5.pdf |volume=25 |issue=3 |pages=439–555