Pinnotheridae
| Pinnotheridae Temporal range: Danian–Recent | |
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| Pinnotheres pisum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Superfamily: | Pinnotheroidea De Haan, 1833 |
| Family: | Pinnotheridae De Haan, 1833 |
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The Pinnotheridae are a family of 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 earliest fossils attributable to the Pinnotheridae date from the Danian.[1]
Genera and species
This is a comprehensive list of species in the family, as of 2008:[2]
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A pea crab (exact genus and species unknown) above the plate of mussels it was found in
A yellow pea crab (exact genus and species unknown) has fallen out of the clam this sea otter is eating, and has landed on the sea otter's neck (in Moss Landing, California)
External links
- ↑ Andreas Brösing (2008). "A reconstruction of an evolutionary scenario for the Brachyura (Decapoda) in the context of the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary" (PDF). Crustaceana. 81 (3): 271–287. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.
- ↑ P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 17: 1–286.
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