Tags: Crustacean.

The oyster crab Zaops ostreus is a small whitish or translucent crab in the family Pinnotheridae. Found specifically in oysters it is an edible sea food delicacy.

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binomial authority
Thomas Say
class
Malacostraca
family
Pinnotheridae
genus
Zaops
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Pinnotheres depressum (Say 1817), *Pinnotheres ostreum (Say 1817), *Zaops ostreum (Say 1817) [misspelling]

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