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Pea crabs
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Pea crabs

Pinnotheroidea

The Pinnotheridae are 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). The earliest fossils attributable to the Pinnotheridae date from the Danian.

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4 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Bivalve Pea Crabs

familyPinnotheridae

Aphanodactylidae

familyAphanodactylidae

Tetriasidae

familyTetriasidae

Parapinnixidae

familyParapinnixidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48814.