Pinnotheres atrinicola
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| Pinnotheres atrinicola | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Brachyura |
| Family: | Pinnotheridae |
| Genus: | Pinnotheres |
| Species: | P. atrinicola |
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| Pinnotheres atrinicola Page, 1983 | |
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]
