Bonita, Campos, Ernesto, 2009

Campos, Ernesto, 2009, Pacific Ocean, with a reappraisal of the subfamily Pinnotherinae de Haan, 1833 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae), Zootaxa 2022, pp. 29-44 : 33

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.186086

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6222592

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/743587B5-FFC1-FFF4-19BF-20E3FAEFFAA4

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Plazi

scientific name

Bonita
status

gen. nov.

Bonita View in CoL , new genus

( Figs. 2–5 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 B, 8B)

Type species. Bonita mexicana new species, by present designation and monotypy.

Diagnosis. Carapace thin, easily wrinkled, tumid, anterolateral margins protruding beyond frontal margin, two longitudinal sulci extending form orbits to middle of carapace; WL3 asymmetrical, left longer than right, dactylus blade-shape; WL4 more robust than others, with clavate propodus, short, conical dactylus. Abdomen large, concave, margin involutes.

Etymology. From the Latin bellus (= beauty) alluding to the beauty facie of the crab. Gender feminine.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Decapoda

InfraOrder

Brachyura

Family

Pinnotheridae

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