Tags: Crustacean.

The pea crab Pinnotheres pisum is a small crab in the family Pinnotheridae that lives as a parasite in oysters clams mussels and other species of bivalves.

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binomial authority
Carl Linnaeus, 12th edition of Systema Naturae
class
Malacostraca
family
Pinnotheridae
genus
Pinnotheres
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda, Crab
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
Pinnotheres cranchii (Leach 1815), Pinnotheres latreilli (Leach 1815), Pinnotheres modiolae (Costa 1840), Pinnotheres modioli (Leach 1814), Pinnotheres mytilii (Leach 1814), Pinnotheres mytilorum (Leach 1814), Pinnotheres varians (Leach 1815)

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