Tumidotheres maculatus

Tags: Crustacean.

Tumidotheres maculatus is a species of crab that lives commensally or parasitically in the mantle cavity of molluscs. It is found along much of the western Atlantic Ocean and was first described by Thomas Say in 1818.

binomial authority: Thomas Say
class: Malacostraca
family: Pinnotheridae
genus: Tumidotheres
kingdom: Animal
order: Decapoda, Crab
phylum: Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym: *, *Cancer parasiticus (Linnaeus 1763), *Pinnotheres maculatus (Say 1818)

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