Pentacheles is a genus of crustaceans of the class
Malacostraca
Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders. Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crab ...
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Species
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Pentacheles gibbus''
Alcock, 1894
* ''
Pentacheles laevis''
Bate, 1878
* ''
Pentacheles obscurus''
Bate, 1878
* ''
Pentacheles snyderi''
(Rathbun, 1906)
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Pentacheles validus
''Pentacheles validus'' is a species of decapod in the family Polychelidae
The family Polychelidae contains thirty-eight extant species of blind, benthic lobster-like crustaceans. They are found throughout the world's tropical, sub-tropica ...
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A. Milne-Edwards, 1880
References
Polychelida
Decapod genera
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