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Pinnotheridae is a family of pea crabs. Pea crabs are tiny soft-bodied crabs that live commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve molluscs (and the occasional large gastropod mollusc species in genera such as Strombus and Haliotis).The free-living males are generally much smaller than the females.The females are whitish or transluescent ans lives as a commensal in the shells of bivalve mollusks..
Wissenschaftliche Klassifikation
Königreich: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Kategorie: Malacostraca
Auftrag: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Pinnotheroidea
De Haan, 1833
Familie: Pinnotheridae
De Haan, 1833
Wissenschaftliche Klassifikation
Königreich: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Kategorie: Malacostraca
Auftrag: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Pinnotheroidea
De Haan, 1833
Familie: Pinnotheridae
De Haan, 1833