Afropinnotheres ratnakara

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Pinnotheroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Brachyura Sectio: Eubrachyura Subsectio: Thoracotremata Superfamilia: Pinnotheroidea

Familia: Pinnotheridae
Subfamilia: Pinnotherinae
Genus: Afropinnotheres
Species: Afropinnotheres ratnakara

Name

Afropinnotheres ratnakara Ng & Kumar, 2015:267

Holotype: ZSI WGRC/IR/INV.4148

Type locality: female (8.89×8.10 mm), from brown mussel Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) (= P. indica Kuriakose & Nair, 1976) (Mytilidae), Kovalam, 8.3°N–77.2°E, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, southwestern India, 5–10 m depth, coll. A. B. Kumar & R. Ravinesh, 31 May 2014.==References==

Primary references

• Ng, P.K.L. & Kumar, A.B. 2015. The species of Moloha Barnard, 1946, from the western Indian Ocean, with the description of a new species from India (Crustacea: Brachyura: Homolidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 166: 1–25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.166 Reference page.