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pea crab

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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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Noun1.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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Finding of the pea crab Pinnaxodes mutuensis Sakai, 1939 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pinnotheridae) in an unusual host in Busse Lagoon, southern Sakhalin.
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
ABSTRACT The oyster pea crab Zaops ostreum (Say, 1817), is a parasite of the eastern oyster Crassostrea virginica Gmelin (1791).
Oyster utilization and host variation of the oyster pea crab (Zaops ostreum)
Polychaetes, crangonid shrimp, pea crab, and clams were the most frequently found prey items in Pacific cod stomachs (Table 1).
Diet changes of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) in Pavlof Bay associated with climate changes in the Gulf of Alaska between 1980 and 1995
Abstract: Size and fecundity observations of pea crab (Juxmfabia muliniarum) from the paleal cavity of the oyster Saccostrea palmula were made from May 1998 to May 1999.
Tallas y fecundidad de Juxtafabia muliniarum (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) asociado con Saccostrea palmula (Bivalvia: Ostreidae), Costa Rica
The smallest is the pea crab, which is only 1/2 inch wide.
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Recognition and use of ascidian hosts, and mate acquisition by the symbiotic pea crab Tuni-cotheres moseri (Rathbun, 1918): the role of chemical, visual and tactile cues.
The enigmatic life history of the symbiotic crab Tunicotheres moseri (crustacea, brachyura, Pinnotheridae): implications for its mating system and population structure
Life history of the pea crab, Pinnotheres sinensis, in term of infestation in the bivalve mollusk, Septifer virgatus.
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
Conspecific recognition and host choice in a pea crab, Pinnixa chaetopterana (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae).
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
Values from each site were used to: (1) compare two sites located in relatively large systems (river/ sound) and three sites in a small creek to test for differences due to system size and related nutrient availability; (2) determine the effect of a parasite, the pea crab (Pinnotheres spp.
Condition index of the Eastern Oyster, Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin, 1791) in Sapelo Island Georgia--effects of site, position on bed and pea crab parasitism
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.
Morphological changes in the seminal receptacle during ovarian development in the speckled swimming crab Arenaeus cribrarius
Porcelain crabs (Porcellanidae) and pea crabs (Pinnixa spp.
Characterizing nekton use of the largest unfished oyster reef in the United States compared with adjacent estuarine habitats
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

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