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

Pinnotheres

arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods

family Pinnotheridae, Pinnotheridae - tiny soft-bodied crabs

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

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

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bipunctatus reveals that this species clearly does not belong to the genus Pinnotheres. The principal differences are observed in the previously described third maxilliped and abdomen.

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

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