Pinnotheres

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Pinnotheres
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Pinnotheres pisum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Brachyura
Family: Pinnotheridae
Genus: Pinnotheres
Bosc, 1802
Synonyms   [1]

PinnozoeaAikawa, 1933

Pinnotheres is a genus of crabs, including the pea crab. Many species formerly in Pinnotheres have been placed in new genera, such as Zaops ostreus (formerly P. ostreus), the oyster crab [2] and Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae (formerly P.novaezelandiae), the New Zealand pea crab. [3] The species currently recognised in the genus Pinnotheres are: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Peter Davie & Michael Türkay. "Pinnotheres Bosc, 1802". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved July 6, 2011.
  2. P. K. L. Ng, D. Guinot & P. J. F. Davie (2008). "Systema Brachyurorum: Part I. An annotated checklist of extant Brachyuran crabs of the world" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . 17: 1–286.
  3. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Nepinnotheres novaezelandiae (Filhol, 1885)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2020-03-04.