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(Animals) any of various globular soft-bodied crabs of the genus Pinnotheres and related genera that live commensally in the mantles of certain bivalves

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pea crab - tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks

crab - decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers

genus Pinnotheres, Pinnotheres - type genus of the family Pinnotheridae: pea crabs

oyster crab, Pinnotheres ostreum - tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters

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On two new genera of pea crabs parasitic in holothurians (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from the Indo-West Pacific, with notes on allied genera.

On an instance of parasitisation by the pea-crab (Pinnotheres sp.) on the backwater clam [Meretrix casta (Chemnitz)] from India, with a review of the work on the systematics, ecology, biology and ethology of pea crabs of the genus Pinnotheres Latreille.

Taxonomy of Pinnotheres bipunctatus Nicolet, 1849 with a distributional checklist of the Pinnotheridae of Chile and Peru, and a list of the Crustacea described by Hercule Nicolet in the Atlas of the Physical and Political History of Chile

Considering that pea crabs can occupy a large portion of the spat population (24%-73%, Byers et al.

Oyster utilization and host variation of the oyster pea crab (Zaops ostreum)

However, apocrine secretion has been described in pea crabs (Pinnotheridae), and it is proposed that this mechanism could be more efficient than holocrine secretion, as supported by the amount of secretion inside the SR (Becker et al., 2011).

Morphological changes in the seminal receptacle during ovarian development in the speckled swimming crab Arenaeus cribrarius

New host record for pea crabs (Pinnotheres ssp) symbiotic with bivalve mollusks in New Zealand (Decapoda: Brachyura).

Tallas y fecundidad de Juxtafabia muliniarum (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) asociado con Saccostrea palmula (Bivalvia: Ostreidae), Costa Rica

Pea crabs - One of the smallest crabs, they may be just 1/2 inch wide.

Crabs

216 1.5 Snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis 10 0.1 Porcelain crabs Porcellanidae 9 0.1 Pea crabs Pinnixa spp.

Characterizing nekton use of the largest unfished oyster reef in the United States compared with adjacent estuarine habitats

The incidence of the crab in the oysters at each of the four sites shows markedly higher numbers of pea crabs in spring samples of El Sotano (ES) and Caleta de los Loros grounds (CL) (Table 1).

Ostrea puelchana (D'Orbigny 1842): a new host of Tumidotheres maculatus (Say, 1818) in northern Patagonia, Argentina/Ostrea puelchana D'Orbigny 1842 nuevo hospedador de Tumidotheres maculatus (Say, 1818) en el norte de Patagonia, Argentina

Pea crabs of the family Pinnotheridae De Haan, 1833 constitute a promising group for morphometric studies because of their complex morphological adaptations to symbiotic life style.

Relative growth and sexual dimorphism of Austinixa aidae (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae): a symbiont of the ghost shrimp Callichirus major from the southwestern Atlantic/Crecimiento relativo y dimorfismo sexual en Austinixa aidae (Barchyura: Pinnotheridae): un simbionte del camaron fantasma Callichirus major del Atlantico sudoccidental

This has been reported for the pea crabs (Crustacea: Pinnotheridae) that also inhabit the mantle cavity of bivalves (Bierbaum & Ferson 1986).

Attachment of the nemertean Malacobdella arrokeana to the mantle of the geoduck Panopea abbreviata and survival outside the host

In addition, CI values were compared between oysters hosting pea crabs (Pinnotheres spp.) and "uninhabited" oysters to test the effect of parasitism on oyster meat quality.

Condition index of the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) in Sapelo Island Georgia--effects of site, position on bed and pea crab parasitism

Fouling organisms and the presence of pea crabs (Pinnotheres maculatus) were recorded and the pea crabs were removed at this point.

Reproduction and pathology of blue mussels, Mytilus edulis (L.) in an experimental longline in Long Island Sound, Connecticut