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Species of king crab

Lithodes jessica
Conservation status

Data Deficient (NZ TCS)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Anomura
Family: Lithodidae
Genus: Lithodes
Species: L. jessica
Binomial name
Lithodes jessica
Ahyong, 2010

Lithodes jessica is a species of king crab in the genus Lithodes. It is found off the coast of New Zealand on the Lord Howe Rise at depths from 680–1,100 m (2,230–3,610 ft).

Appearance

L. jessica has a pyriform carapace with long, slender spines, and its chelipeds are long and cylindrical. Its colour in life is unknown. Having been measured with at most a carapace length of 110.5 mm (4.35 in) and a carapace width of 58.1 mm (2.29 in), it is small enough to resemble early adults of other species within Lithodes.

References

  1. Funnell, Greig; et al. (January 2023). Todd, Amanda (ed.). Conservation status of indigenous marine invertebrates in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2021 (PDF) (Report). New Zealand Department of Conservation. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-99-118365-1. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  2. ^ Ahyong, Shane T. (2010). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: King Crabs of New Zealand, Australia, and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) (PDF). NIWA Diversity Memoirs. Vol. 123. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. pp. 41–48. ISBN 978-0478232851. LCCN 2010497356. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2020.

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Taxon identifiers
Lithodes jessica
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