The Moulting Stages of the Pea-Crab (Pinnotheres pisum)
- 1 August 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
- Vol. 14 (2) , 475-493
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315400007955
Abstract
Pinnotheres pisum is a small crab with a carapace between about 2−1 and 18 mm. wide. The females are commonly found parasitic in the mussel, Mytilus edulis, though they have been recorded from other bivalves. The males are free-swimming and are comparatively rarely found in mussels. These small crabs are never abundant, and not more than one female has ever been found in a mussel.Keywords
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