Pinnotheridae

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Pinnotheridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Superfamily: Pinnotheroidea
De Haan, 1833
Family: Pinnotheridae
De Haan, 1833
Genera and species

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Pinnotheridae is a family of pea crabs. They are tiny soft-bodied crabs living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve molluscs.

[edit] Genera and species

  • Genus Dissodactylus
    • Dissodactylus alcocki
    • Dissodactylus borradailei
    • Seabiscuit pea crab, Dissodactylus crinitichelis
    • Dissodactylus encopei
    • Sand-dollar pea crab, Dissodactylus mellitae
    • Dissodactylus primitivus
    • Dissodactylus rugatus
    • Dissodactylus stebbingi
  • Genus Fabia
    • Fabia byssomiae
    • Fabia canfieldi
    • Smooth mussel crab, Fabia concharum
    • Grooved mussel crab, Fabia subquadrata
    • Fabia tellinae
  • Genus Opisthopus
    • Mottled pea crab, Opisthopus transversus
  • Genus Orthotheres
    • Orthotheres affinis
    • Orthotheres haliotidis
    • Conch pea crab, Orthotheres strombi
  • Genus Parapinnixa
  • Genus Pinnaxodes
    • Polkadotted pea crab, Pinnaxodes floridensis
    • Species Pinnaxodes gigas
  • Genus Pinnixa
    • Pinnixa barnhardti
    • ies Pinnixa barnharti
    • Chace pea crab, Pinnixa chacei
    • Tube pea crab, Pinnixa chaetopterana
    • Pinnixa cristata
    • Pinnixa cylindrica
    • Pinnixa eburna
    • Mantle pea crab, Pinnixa faba
    • Pinnixa floridana
    • Pinnixa floridensis
    • Pinnixa franciscana
    • Pinnixa haematosticta Sakai, 1934
    • Pinnixa hiatus
    • Pinnixa leptosynaptae
    • Gaper pea crab, Pinnixa littoralis
    • Longleg pea crab, Pinnixa longipes
    • Lunz pea crab, Pinnixa lunzi
    • Thumbless pea crab, Pinnixa monodactyla
    • Pinnixa occidentalis
    • Pinnixa pearsei
    • Pinnixa penultipedalis Stimpson, 1858
    • Pinnixa rathbuni
    • Pinnixa retinens
    • Pinnixa sayana
    • Schmitt pea crab, Pinnixa schmitti
    • Pinnixa tomentosa
    • Pinnixa tubicola
    • Pinnixa weymouthi
  • Genus Pinnotheres
  • Genus Scleroplax
    • Burrow pea crab, Scleroplax granulata

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