NOUN | animal | pea crab | tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks |
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Meaning | tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks. | |
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Member of | Pinnotheres, genus Pinnotheres | type genus of the family Pinnotheridae |
Narrower | oyster crab, Pinnotheres ostreum | tiny soft-bodied crab living within the mantle cavity of oysters |
Broader | crab | decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers |
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