Name - Orthotheres Sakai 1969

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Original Description Reference

• Two new genera and twenty-two new species of crabs from Japan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82 1969: 243-280. [Zoological Record Volume 106]

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Recent Publications

• Comments on taxonomy of the genus Orthotheres Sakai, 1969 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae).
• The pea crab Orthotheres haliotidis new species (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) in the Australian abalone Haliotis asinina Linnaeus, 1758 and Haliotis squamata Reeve, 1846 (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Haliotidae).
• Two new genera and twenty-two new species of crabs from Japan.
• Orthotheres baoyu, a new species of pea crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) associated with abalones from Tungsha Island, Taiwan; with notes on the genus.
• On the pea crabs found in the chiton Tonicia chilensis (Frembly, 1827) (Mollusca, Polyplacophora: Chitonidae) identified as 'Orthotheres sp.' by Melzer & Schwabe (2008), and its reassignment to Calyptraeotheres Campos, 1990 (Crustacea: Pinnotheridae).

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