Talk:Pea crab

Howdy, I created a page on pinnotheras ostreum, under [Oyster crab]. It seems there are more than one creature that lives inside an oyster that is a crab. Should we merge the articles, perhaps?? I had no idea these things even existed until I found one inside an oyster I shucked a week ago.

hi everyone
I was wondering, in the beginning of the article, it says that the pea crab lives in a bivalve through symbiosis, yet at the end of the article, it says recent studies shown that it damages the gills of the mollusks, thus making it a parasite, should I or someone change it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.27.10.1 (talk) 21:24, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Symbiosis technically includes parasitic relationships 76.5.130.65 (talk) 03:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Technically, what you say is true according to the original definition. However, there is no consensus and some biologists define symbiotic relationships to be equivalent to mutualistic ones. This should probably be addressed. For now I have only added a link to the symbiosis page, but that is a temporary fix. Mad2Physicist (talk) 12:34, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Two articles on pea crabs in general
I don't know if that article was perhaps originally intended to be about one species of pea crab in particular, or one genus? We also have an article on Pinnotheridae, the pea crabs. Maybe the two articles should either be merged, or perhaps differentiated in some way? Invertzoo (talk) 14:05, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, it was. This article was originally about Pinnotheres pisum in particular, and I have returned it to that. Accordingly, I have taken out the otter photo which, having been taken in California, cannot show P. pisum. It is still in place on the Pinnotheridae article, where it belongs. We may have to think about renaming some of these articles. --Stemonitis (talk) 08:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

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