Pinnotheridae: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Pinnotheridae
Genus
Species
Scientific Name: Pinnotheridae

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Pinnotheridae

Pinnotheridae is 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. Tunicotheres moseri is commensal with a tunicate. The earliest fossils attributable to the Pinnotheridae date from the Danian.

Pinnotheridae in languages:

Chinese: 豆蟹科
English: Bivalve Pea Crabs
Japanese: カクレガニ科
Russian: Крабы-горошины
Swedish: ärtkrabbor

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Decapoda

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