Pinnotheres atrinicola
Appearance
Pinnotheres atrinicola | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Infraorder: | Brachyura |
Family: | Pinnotheridae |
Genus: | Pinnotheres |
Species: | P. atrinicola
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Binomial name | |
Pinnotheres atrinicola Page, 1983
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Pinnotheres atrinicola is a small crab that lives symbiotically in the horse mussel Atrina zelandica around New Zealand. This species was recognised as being distinct from Pinnotheres novaezelandiae in 1983.[1]
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