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Lithodes aotearoa

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Lithodes aotearoa
Juvenile above, adult specimen below
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. aotearoa
Binomial name
Lithodes aotearoa
Ahyong, 2010[1]
Map
Holotype site: NIWA 34924[2][3]

Lithodes aoteoroa is a New Zealand species of king crab in the family, Lithodidae,[1] and was first described in 2010 by Shane T. Ahyong.[1][2] It had formerly been confused with L. longispina and L. murrayi, but neither of those species are found in New Zealand.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Lithodes aotearoa Ahyong, 2010". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Shane T. Ahyong (2010). The marine fauna of New Zealand: king crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae) (PDF). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. Vol. 123. ISBN 978-0-478-23286-8. Wikidata Q63247008.
  3. ^ NIWA (2018). "NIWA Invertebrate Collection: NIWA 34924 Lithodes aoteoroa" – via GBIF.