Pea_crab Pea_crab

Pea crab - Definition

Related Words: Beef, Bellyache, Bitch, Capstan, Chigoe, Clam, Cockroach, Complainant, Cramp, Crane, Crank, Crawdad, Crawfish
Pea crab
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Suborder:Pleocyemata
Infraorder:Brachyura
Family:Pinnotheridae
Genus:Pinnotheres
Species:pisum
Binomial name

Pinnotheres pisum
Linnaeus, 1767

The Pea Crab (Pinnotheres pisum) is a small crab that lives in oyster shells. They are about the size of a pea. It is also commonly called an Oyster Crab.

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