Chelonocytherois omutai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cytheroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Superclassis: Oligostraca Classis: Ostracoda Subclassis: Podocopa Ordo: Podocopida Subordo: Cytherocopina Superfamilia: Cytheroidea

Familia: Paradoxostomatidae
Subfamily: Cytheroisinae
Genus: Chelonocytherois
Species: Chelonocytherois omutai

Name

Chelonocytherois omutai Tanaka & Hayashi, 2019

Type locality: epizoic algae on the carapace of a female loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, landing on the Yotsuse Beach (30.4156 N, 130.4394 E) of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Holotype: UMUT. male ♂. UMUT RA 33122. 15.VI.2016. legit Ryota Hayashi.

References

Primary references

Tanaka, H. & Hayashi, R. 2019. Chelonocytherois omutai gen. et sp. nov. (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from the back of loggerhead sea turtles. Zootaxa 4624(4): 507–522. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.4.4 . Reference page.

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