Pinnotheres atrinicola

Tags: Crustacean.

Pinnotheres atrinicola is a small crab that lives symbiotically in the horse mussel Atrina zelandica around New Zealand. This species was recognised as being distinct from Pinnotheres novaezelandiae in 1983.

binomial authority: Roderic D.M. Page
class: Malacostraca
family: Pinnotheridae
genus: Pinnotheres
kingdom: Animal
order: Decapoda, Crab
phylum: Arthropod, Crustacean

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