Pinnotheridae

Pinnotheridae
Temporal range: Danian–Recent
Pinnotheres pisum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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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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)

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

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

  1. ^ Ambrosio, Louis J.; Baeza, J. Antonio (2016). "Territoriality and Conflict Avoidance Explain Asociality (Solitariness) of the Endosymbiotic Pea Crab Tunicotheres moseri". PLOS ONE. 11 (2): e0148285. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1148285A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148285. PMC 4766240. PMID 26910474.
  2. ^ 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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.652.1701. doi:10.1163/156854008783564091.
  3. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Pinnotheridae De Haan, 1833". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2023-06-15.