Chelonocytherois omutai

Taxonavigation

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: Oligostraca
Classis: Ostracoda
Subclassis: Podocopa
Ordo: Podocopida
Subordo: Cytherocopina
Superfamilia: Cytheroidea
Familia: Paradoxostomatidae
Subfamilia: 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.