Pea crab

Pea crab
Pinnotheres pisum ♂
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Pinnotheridae
Genus: Pinnotheres
Species:
P. pisum
Binomial name
Pinnotheres pisum
Synonyms

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

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.[2]

  1. ^ Charles Fransen & Michael Türkay. "Pinnotheres pisum (Linnaeus, 1767)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved February 9, 2009.
  2. ^ "Pea crab". Answers.com. Retrieved February 9, 2009.