Neolithodes brodiei
| Neolithodes brodiei | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Anomura |
| Family: | Lithodidae |
| Genus: | Neolithodes |
| Species: | N. brodiei
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| Binomial name | |
| Neolithodes brodiei Dawson & Yaldwyn, 1970[1]
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Neolithodes brodiei is a species of king crab which is native to New Zealand and its adjacent waters.[2] It lives at a depth of 500–1,240 metres (1,640–4,070 ft) but is typically found within a depth of 950–1,150 metres (3,120–3,770 ft).[2] It has a deep-red colour, and its carapace has many small spinules along with larger spines.[2] It is classified as "Not Threatened" by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.[3]
Misidentifications
In 2001, a paper was published in Zoosystema which claimed to have found a specimen of N. brodiei in Vanuatu;[4] however, this was later determined to be a yet-undescribed species.[2] Likewise, a 2005 paper in Polar Biology claimed to have found four specimens off the Balleny Islands in the Southern Ocean,[5] but these were misidentified and were later determined to be a new species called Neolithodes yaldwyni.[2]
Etymology
"Neolithodes" is derived from Greek and Latin and means "new stone-crab",[6] while "brodiei" takes its namesake from J. W. Brodie, then-Director of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute.[1]
References
- ^ a b Yaldwyn, John Cameron; Dawson, Elliot Watson (June 1970). "Diagnosis of a New Species of Neolithodes (Crustacea: Anomura: Lithodidae) from New Zealand (Note)" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 4 (2): 227–228. Retrieved 16 May 2020 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d e 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. 74–83. ISBN 978-0478232851. LCCN 2010497356. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 February 2020.
- ^ Freeman, Debbie; et al. (December 2014). Conservation status of New Zealand marine invertebrates, 2013 (PDF) (Report). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. Vol. 9. Department of Conservation. p. 13. ISBN 978-0478150322. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ Macpherson, Enrique (2001). "New species and new records of lithodid crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the southwestern and central Pacific Ocean" (PDF). Zoosystema. 23 (4): 797–805. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 August 2017 – via the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
- ^ Thatje, Sven; Lörz, Anne-Nina (10 November 2004). "First record of lithodid crabs from Antarctic waters off the Balleny Islands" (PDF). Polar Biology. 28: 334–337. doi:10.1007/s00300-004-0686-1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2017.
- ^ Emmerson, W. D. (July 2016). A Guide to, and Checklist for, the Decapoda of Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. Vol. 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-4438-9097-7.
External links
Data related to Neolithodes brodiei at Wikispecies
