Pinnotheridae

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Pinnotheridae
Temporal range: Danian–Recent
File:Pinnotheres pisum.jpg
Pinnotheres pisum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Subsection: Thoracotremata
Superfamily: Pinnotheroidea
Family: Pinnotheridae
De Haan, 1833
Genera

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File:Pea crab (Pinnotheridae, exact species unknown) above the plate of mussels it was found in.jpg
A pea crab (exact genus and species unknown) above the plate of mussels it was found in
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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)

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.[1] The earliest fossils attributable to the Pinnotheridae date from the Danian.[2]

Genera

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The following genera are recognised in the family Pinnotheridae:[3]

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