Lithodes jessica
| Lithodes jessica | |
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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: | Lithodes |
| Species: | L. jessica
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| Binomial name | |
| Lithodes jessica Ahyong, 2010
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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).[2]
Appearance
[edit]L. jessica has a pyriform carapace with long, slender spines, and its chelipeds are long and cylindrical.[2] Its colour in life is unknown.[2] 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.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d 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.
External links
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